Re: Change tar to GNU

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:52:28AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >Kaspars wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I have backup script build with tar and -newer options.
> >>on FreeBSD 5.3 not working and I found:
> >>$tar --version
> >>bsdtar 1.01.011, libarchive 1.01.013
> >>Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Tim Kientzle
> 
> --newer would be simple to add if I
> could crib some date/time parsing code.
> 
> Anyone know a good place to steal that from? ;-)
> 
Sure.  Both cvs(1) and find(1) use the same date parse
library, see src/usr.bin/find/getdate.y for details.


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Ruslan Ermilov
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