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I haven't tried it, but looking at the docs for tar it appears that it doesn't like the YYYYMMDD format. Try using YYYY-MM-DD instead. Walt On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:26:48PM -0400, Aaron Crosman wrote: > I am trying to write a script that will copy files from our remote > debian web server to a local SuSE server that processes web logs for > stats. For obvious reasons I only want to copy the new files. Most of > the script works great. I can connect the to remote, run the commands > below, scp the resulting tar.gz file to the local server and decompress > them in desired directory. It's the creation of the tar file that seems > to be giving me trouble. It always copies all the files, not just the > new ones. Can someone please tell me what I'm missing? > > Thanks > Aaron > > =============== Bash Commands executed on remote host follow > ==================== > > # Get the new date > now=$(date +%Y%m%d) > > # Get the previous Date > prev=$(cat date.logs.dump) > > # Remove the old tar file > rm ~/siteLogs.tar.gz > > # create the new tar file > tar -czf ~/siteLogs.tar.gz --after-date="$prev" /www/sitelogs > > # save the date > echo $now > date.logs.dump > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
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