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Started by brian
Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:43
tar cvfN doesn't work
Author: brian
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:43
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:43
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MACHINE: DG Aviion 4320
O/S: DG/UX 5.4.1
UTILITY: gnu tar
VERSION 1.11
FEATURE -N --newer backup modified files
DESCRIPTION:
The -N option of gnutar seems to only partially work. Given a sample dir
structure below, a gnutar command, it's results, and a list of the resulting
archive, I'm sure you will see what the problem is.
Gnutar seems to only work on files newer (-N) in the current directory, but
works on all files in any subdirectories. Why is this??
>From the example provided, should testdir and it's contents not get skipped
due to being older than the "newer" date specified??
I though maybe the date on the directory was "newer" and therefore the
contents were being dumped. You will notice however, from the example I have
provided, this is not the case.
directory structure:
NOTE: testdir is just a copy of the contents of it's parent, it's not an
error.
total 6686
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter general 2607 Oct 5 17:47 archive
-rw------- 1 brian general 1926 Oct 5 18:38 bjm
-rw--w--w- 1 root other 1432 Oct 2 16:38 confax
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 826144 Oct 6 11:18 core
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Oct 1 02:03 croutIVIa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Oct 1 02:03 croutJVIa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Oct 6 02:03 croutNMNa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Oct 6 02:03 croutOMNa0006R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 144 Sep 30 11:11 ftpfiles
-rw--w--w- 1 root other 14816 Sep 29 08:33 image
-rwx------ 1 brian general 39676 Oct 6 11:13 mbox.brian
-rw------- 1 root other 964 Sep 30 11:17 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 952 Sep 30 11:18 me2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 85 Sep 26 12:50 sysadm.err.10913
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 85 Sep 26 13:04 sysadm.err.11054
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Jan 1 1992 testdir
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian general 394629 Oct 5 14:52 wpboard
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian general 384453 Oct 5 14:55 wpboard2
./testdir:
total 1673
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other 2607 Jan 1 1992 archive
-rw------- 1 root other 1926 Jan 1 1992 bjm
-rw--w--w- 1 root other 1432 Jan 1 1992 confax
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jan 1 1992 croutIVIa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jan 1 1992 croutJVIa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jan 1 1992 croutNMNa0006R
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jan 1 1992 croutOMNa0006R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 144 Jan 1 1992 ftpfiles
-rw--w--w- 1 root other 14816 Jan 1 1992 image
-rwx------ 1 root other 39676 Jan 1 1992 mbox.brian
-rw------- 1 root other 964 Jan 1 1992 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 952 Jan 1 1992 me2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 85 Jan 1 1992 sysadm.err.10913
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 85 Jan 1 1992 sysadm.err.11054
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 394629 Jan 1 1992 wpboard
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 384453 Jan 1 1992 wpboard2
command and results:
/dev/pts/2 on imcon> gnutar.1.11 cvfN /tmp/backfile "10/06/92" *
gnutar.1.11: archive: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: bjm: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: confax: is unchanged; not dumped
core
gnutar.1.11: croutIVIa0006R: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: croutJVIa0006R: is unchanged; not dumped
croutNMNa0006R
croutOMNa0006R
gnutar.1.11: ftpfiles: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: image: is unchanged; not dumped
mbox.brian
gnutar.1.11: me: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: me2: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: sysadm.err.10913: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: sysadm.err.11054: is unchanged; not dumped
testdir/
testdir/archive
testdir/bjm
testdir/confax
testdir/croutIVIa0006R
testdir/croutJVIa0006R
testdir/croutNMNa0006R
testdir/croutOMNa0006R
testdir/ftpfiles
testdir/image
testdir/mbox.brian
testdir/me
testdir/me2
testdir/sysadm.err.10913
testdir/sysadm.err.11054
testdir/wpboard
testdir/wpboard2
goutar.1.11: wpboard: is unchanged; not dumped
gnutar.1.11: wpboard2: is unchanged; not dumped
the contents of the archive:
/dev/pts/2 on imcon> gnutar.1.11 tvf backfile
-rw-r--r-- root/other 826144 Oct 6 11:18 1992 core
-rw------- root/other 0 Oct 6 02:03 1992 croutNMNa0006R
-rw------- root/other 0 Oct 6 02:03 1992 croutOMNa0006R
-rwx------ brian/general 39676 Oct 6 11:13 1992 mbox.brian
drwxr-xr-x root/other 0 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/
-rw-rw-r-- root/other 2607 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/archive
-rw------- root/other 1926 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/bjm
-rw--w--w- root/other 1432 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/confax
-rw------- root/other 0 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/croutIVIa0006R
-rw------- root/other 0 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/croutJVIa0006R
-rw------- root/other 0 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/croutNMNa0006R
-rw------- root/other 0 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/croutOMNa0006R
-rw-r--r-- root/other 144 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/ftpfiles
-rw--w--w- root/other 14816 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/image
-rwx------ root/other 39676 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/mbox.brian
-rw------- root/other 964 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/me
-rw-r--r-- root/other 952 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/me2
-rw-r--r-- root/other 85 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/sysadm.err.10913
-rw-r--r-- root/other 85 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/sysadm.err.11054
-rw-r--r-- root/other 394629 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/wpboard
-rw-r--r-- root/other 384453 Jan 1 12:00 1992 testdir/wpboard2
--
Brian J. Murrell brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca
InterLinx Support Services, Inc. uunet!van-bc!ilinx!brian
North Vancouver, B.C.
Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
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