I am trying to archive directories based on their last modified date. When I tar and compress the directory it makes copies of whats inside, I don't know how to fix this.
Here is my code.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#AUTODRUNDISABLE
VERSION="0.2"
cd /desired/directory/to/archive
find . -type d -newermt 2012-06-01 ! -newermt 2012-06-30 | tar -zcvf tar.tar.gz
I made a test directory because the actual directories I will be working with are massive and so to same time in compression I created /test/sub_dir/test.txt.
When I run my script this is what it compresses.
./test/
./test/sub_dir/
./test/sub_dir/test.txt
./test/sub_dir/
./test/sub_dir/test.txt
Note that, given enough files, xargs will run tar more than once, ergo you have to use the 'append' mode to get a valid file when that happens. You can't append a compressed file, so you have to compress afterwards.
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