Hello

I need a little help in my installation. We need make a tar all days with a directory with many files to selected for a date. I trying execute this command in a script

find /tmp/files/* -mmin +1440 -a -type f -exec tar -cf /tmp/comp.Z {} \;

it's running ok, but only contain one file into the comp.Z

Any know what is my problem?

If any know other method for make this, it's welcome.

Thank you

-exec ... {} will run the command for each file that was found again. Thus, one "tar cf" will overwrite the tar file produced for the previous file. I would do this instead:

Now it's work ok. I have still a lot of to learning

thank you for your help

If you use the approach I posted above, you will run into problems as soon as a file name containing spaces is encountered. (You have the same problem in your original script as well, btw.) If you stick with "find" only, you should put double-quotes around the {}.

What would be a good idea is to use the -r or -u options to append files to an archive:
p.s: "tar" does not create a compressed file (extension .Z) unless you tell it to do so with the option -Z.