On Wed, Oct 01, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: >This simple chore of setting up a backup program is taking my evening. I >remember now why I was putting this off. > >I am using find to find files newer than the last backup to feed them to >tar. This is working as expected, more or less. I want to find all file >types except directories, especially regular files and symbolic links >(which will not be followed.) It seems that the -type option only takes >one parameter at a time. Is there some way for a single find command >to search for several specified file types? man find and info find are >both silent on this issue.
find / -xdev ! -type d .... Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
