On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 20:21 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > Here's my solution, using the --archive-names option (new in > 1.0.38, 2018-July-15, so longtime users might not know it exists). > > I'm deleting any archive names that match "zeros-100*" because > they're left-over from some debugging I was doing. > > > $ tarsnap --list-archives > archivelist.txt > $ grep "zeros-100*" archivelist.txt > todelete.txt > $ more todelete.txt > zeros-1001 > zeros-1000 > $ tarsnap -d --archive-names todelete.txt
Brilliant! Almost exactly what I was looking for and it worked perfectly. Thanks Graham. Only problem is now you're making less money from my having previously over-archived. Craig