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Finds all files modified between 2022-12-02 and 2022-12-05. | Finds all files modified between 2022-12-02 and 2022-12-05. | ||
Credits: [https://stackoverflow.com/a/23508622/3424360 StackOverflow: Find files created in a date range] | |||
== untar files on destination computer == | == untar files on destination computer == | ||
Latest revision as of 11:06, 22 January 2023
tar files on computer with modified file
cd /path tar cfz `date -u +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.tar.gz `find . -mtime -20 -type f -name "*"`
Credits (slightly modified)
Explanation: find all files that have been modified (mtime) in the recent 20 days and put them into a tar.gz-file whose name represents the current date and time (UTC).
Alternative:
tar cfz `date -u +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.tar.gz `find . -newermt "2022-12-02" ! -newermt "2022-12-05" -type f -name "*"`
Finds all files modified between 2022-12-02 and 2022-12-05.
Credits: StackOverflow: Find files created in a date range
untar files on destination computer
cd /path tar -zxvf name-of-file.tar.gz