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Old 04-01-2009
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f` only tar 1 file
Hi all,

4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:

tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file - ora_475244.

Why is it so? Please help. Thks!
# 2  
Old 04-01-2009
Basically it should be no problem. Maybe depending which version of tar you use. I am on Debian using GNU tar for this example:
Code:
$> find . -type d -name "dir[0-9]"
./dir1
./dir2
$> tar cvf bla.tar `find . -type d -name "dir[0-9]" -print`
./dir1/
./dir1/subdir1/
./dir1/.ssh/
./dir1/.ssh/somekey
./dir1/subdir2/
./dir2/
./dir2/subdir1/
./dir2/subdir2/
$> tar tvf bla.tar
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/subdir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/.ssh/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/.ssh/somekey
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir1/subdir2/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:38 ./dir2/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir2/subdir1/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 11:35 ./dir2/subdir2/


Make sure that your is showing the files you want, ie. maybe write it like this
Code:
# 1st:
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print
# If output is the files you want, 2nd:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f -print`

# 3  
Old 04-02-2009
Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I managed to get all my files. It is due to the FTP mode i'm using. If i set to ascii, i will only retrieve 1 file. Setting the ftp mode to binary retrieves all the files.

Thanks!
 
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