On 04/20/2012 03:13 AM, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > "Save all files that have been changed since a specific time stamp, exclude > directory X/, > exclude files from director Y/ *but* do save directories from it to the tar > file"
This can be done with the combination of the flags --newer-mtime and --exclude-tag-under, or something like that, I expect. > There are quite a lot of things that find can, but tar cannot do. Absolutely! But I don't see why this one in particular is one of them. In the longer run, Joerg's suggestion of using libfind, or something like that, may be a better one -- then 'tar' could do anything that 'find' can do, without further ado. However, libfind (or whatever) would have to be audited for security holes.... > I also spoke to many different people that are in fact using the combination > of > find and tar This combination is safe in environments where only trusted users can modify the file system. But it's not safe in general, which is why I have qualms about supporting it.
