question about tar -N

[R Kimber]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:14:40 +0300
Tero Pesonen wrote:

> Someone else may be able to help you with the -N switch, but as to are
> there other options, I started at some point using bsdtar in place of
> tar as it automatically recognized the compression format used when
> extracting. That was useful for me at the time. TAR may do that as well
> nowadays. But I suggest you give bsdtar a go. The --newer and
> --newer-mtime (and --newer-than file and --newer-mtime-than file)
> switches should work as advertised based on my experience.

Thanks.  I've looked at that but it doesn't seem to have a 'read exclusions
from an external file' option, which I'd also like.

- Richard
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