Re: Weird behavior with find command when tarring files

Use tar -r instead of tar -c

It will create the archive if it doesn't exist and append to it if it does. Your call to tar -c will probably overwrite the file each time it runs.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:58 AM Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I am using the *find* command to TAR up files that are older than 4 hours:
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> find . type f -mmin +239 | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/test.tar
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> The command tars up files and seems to finish fine. However, when I untar
> and count the number of files against the count of files that should have
> been captured (find . type f –mmin +239 | xargs ls –l | wc -l) there is a
> huge difference and the files captured by tar were way less than the file
> listed for the same time.
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> This is a strange behavior. What am I doing wrong (I am sure I am doing
> something wrong)?
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> Thanks,
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> Amir
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