tar files between 2 dates

[martinjust]

Hi. Newbie linux user here.

I need to create a tar file containing a number of files from another directory where the file dates fall between two dates.

I get recent files like this:

tar -c -v --newer-mtime="2007-03-01" -f mytarfile.tar /archive/logs/testlogs/*testlog

But now I need to set a high limit also.

thanks for any help!

 

[Annihilannic]

This example would tar up all files from midnight on 1st January to midnight on 1st April:

touch 01010000 /tmp/startdate
touch 04010000 /tmp/enddate
find /archive/logs/testlogs -name "*testlog" -newer startdate -a ! -newer enddate > /tmp/filelist
tar -cvfT mytarfile.tar /tmp/filelist

Annihilannic.