Hi there, as usual when I see a problem on my Linux box, I wonder if I am stupid or if there is a bug. Fortunately, I'm stupid more than often. But I was trying to use tar yesterday to do a backup of my /home rep. for files which are newer than August 29 2001. So I issued the following command, which is correct, according to the man page: # tar -cjv -N 28-08-2001 -f 8Septembre2001.tar.bz2 /home/michel However, the content of the tar archive is only made of directories. No files at all. Here's a sample: ... home/michel/GNUstep/Defaults/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/Icons/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/IconSets/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/SoundSets/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles/ home/michel/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WPrefs/ home/michel/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WindowMaker/ home/michel/images/ home/michel/images/.etc/ home/michel/images/daumier/ home/michel/images/daumier/.pics/ home/michel/images/daumier/.pics/med/ home/michel/images/daumier/.xvpics/ home/michel/images/.pics/ home/michel/images/.pics/med/ ..... Etc. So what is wrong? I've picked these commands from the manpage, issued them in a meaningful order, and I get only directories, without any files I'm using -j to compress with Bzip2, but I have used GZip as well, and got similar results. So does anyone has an idea about what is wrong? Please don't tell me that I am stupid, I'll do that for myself ... :-) Michel Hardy-Vallée -- C'est fou ce qu'un python boa, on dirait un cameleon citerne.
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