Hi,

I have a list of files in a directory and I want to be able to compress and tar those found files into 1 tar file.
First is this feasible? And secondly can some one provide me with the syntax please.

I can do an ls -ltr |grep 'Jun 21' but afterwards I want to tar them into a tar file named Jun21.tar

I would like to do this on a one line command and not via a shell script

Many thanks for your help

I'd use the -N parameter of tar.

-PatP

Do you happen to have a more through explanation that that please

Do I add tar -N to the tail of the previous syntax? Apologies but your answer is not clear for a novice like myself

Thanks in advance

The -N option on the tar statement will select files newer than the argument supplied.
The argument may be a date, or the name of a file (whose date of last change will be used as the date).
This is not quite the same as files equal to a specific date.
Are we to assume that you want this in one line in order to embed it in a compiled program?
It would be easier to write a script, and just call the script from the program. Are any of the files going to be over a year old?

Hello,

no, none of the files are more than a year old. The most the files would be aged would be 3 months.
If you have a script to hand that would be most appreciated. I can then put that script into cron
and allow the script to move the files as and when required automatically

Thanks in advance

Another alternative would be:

The problem with this solution is that there are 9 arguments (for each file) to the ls -ltr command and each argument is passed to tar.

Yes, you're right. But that's nothing you can't easily fix, for example with "cut" or "awk".

i.e.
| awk '{print $9}'

Hello,

thanks for all your comments but as of yet I have no definitive answer.

If the process is feasible on one line can someone provide the syntax for that

If the answer is in the form of a shell script can one of you experienced UNIX guys
display the lines / code required.

Many thanks in advance

Hey,

thanks for that last syntax - it works like a dream.

Many many thanks

Something like that - except that it won't work if there are spaces in the file name.