gnu tar problem

[John Landstreet]

Hello

I am running tar (GNU tar) 1.13 under Linux Slackware 8.0 on a HP XE3
laptop and on a desktop PC. I have been trying to create a (disk) tar file
of only the newest files in a directory. When I make a list of recent
files (with find) and then ask tar to create a tarfile of only these files
with the "-T list" or "--files-from=list" options, exactly as specified in
the tar info files, tar ignores the option and creates a file with
everything beneath ./. Thus for example when I follow your example,
     $ find . -mtime -10 -print > new-files
     $ tar -c -v -z -T new-files -f new.tgz
tar first creates a tar file with everything in the directory, and then
adds on the stuff in my "new-files" list. 

Can you give me any suggestions as to how to avoid this behaviour and get
only the small tar file I want?

Thanks very much for your help.

Your, John Landstreet




                        Prof. John D. Landstreet 
         Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Western Ontario
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