Chris Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your switch:- > --newer=DATE-OR-FILE > Is not behaving as I expect.
But probably it is behaving as described in the documentation: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/after.html#after. The --newer option tests both mtime and ctime of the files. A file is dumped if any of these is newer than the mtime of the --newer argument. Usual `ls -l' output lists only mtime, so this: > -rwxr--r-- 1 cnd cnd 78428270 Mar 31 2005 > /var/www/html/emsvr/pico/Para_Mt_Beauty.avi* means that the file Para_Mt_Beauty.avi was modified at Mar 31. However its status may have been (and obviously was) changed later. You can check this by running `ls -l -c'. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
