Re: Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:31 am, Richard Caley wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerard Samuel > (gs) writes: > > gs> Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the > gs> --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. > gs> Unfortunately, it also creates unwan

Re: Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Caley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerard Samuel (gs) writes: gs> Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the gs> --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. gs> Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted "empty" directories. Have you tried using find? If a relati

Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
For a shell script. The scenario. Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted "empty" directories. Is there a way to scan the directory (recursively) into an array, and loop ove