Re: Problem with option -N

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Ed Crenshaw <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:56:23 -0500

> In the following partial listing of the contents of the resulting
> archive there is a subdirectory "a1" which is newer than the
> specified date but its contained files are not newer.  They did
> however get placed in the archive.

That's the best that tar can do, I'm afraid.  If the directory has
changed, it's possible that all the files in the directory have been
moved there since the last dump, so tar has to dump all the files
under the directory.

> Also I'd like to point out that I couldn't find the correct format
> of "DATE" defined anywhere and I had to experiment to get this far.

There is a "Date input formats" section in the tar manual.

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