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Old 08-23-2010
how to tar with date criteria?
I would like to tar (compress) all the files with some date criteria.
I tried :
tar -cvwf 20_08_2010.tar | ls -la | grep "Aug 20"

but it's not working. How should I type?
# 2  
Old 08-23-2010
This is not the recommended way of doing it .. anyway.

Code:
 
 tar -cvf a.tar  $(stat -c"%n %y" * | grep -- "08-20" | cut -f1 -d' ' )

Best method is to use find command, and executing tar for the files returned by it.
# 3  
Old 08-23-2010
but, I'm using aix OS with bash shell
# 4  
Old 08-23-2010
thegeek shows you whats wrong in your command line:
The pipes arent going to feed your tar...
Using your syntax:
Code:
 ls -la | grep "Aug 20"|awk '{print $9}' # will give you the names of the files to tar
#so as I have no bash to test with here is the ksh command line
tar -cvf 20_08_2010.tar $(ls -la | grep "Aug 20"|awk '{print $9}')
# I let you sort out for bash

 
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