RE: Weird behavior with find command when tarring files

I appreciate for all the feedback that I have received. It helped me resolved the issue.

Thanks
From: Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:29 AM
To: Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com> Cc: oracle-l-freelists <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: 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<mailto:Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>> wrote: Hi,
I am using the find command to TAR up files that are older than 4 hours:

find . type f -mmin +239 | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/test.tar

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.

This is a strange behavior. What am I doing wrong (I am sure I am doing something wrong)?

Thanks,
Amir

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