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Old 08-06-2008
Script for zipping a file

HI,

I want a script which creat a zip file folder of files older than 15 days.......

please help me on this...........
# 2  
Old 08-06-2008
Try this..to list out all the files older than 15 days.
- find . -mtime +15 -exec ls -l {} \;
# 3  
Old 08-06-2008
try this command
# find . -mtime +15 | xargs tar -cvf file.tar
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Old 08-06-2008
how to zip all the files in a particular folder.
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Old 08-06-2008
tar -cvf allmyfiles.tar *
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