-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:17:25 -0400, Randy Chrismon wrote: > I'm wanting to make a tar-ball, or similar, backup of certain files on > the Win2K (fat32) partition on my mostly RedHat box. For example, I'd > like to backup (create a tar-ball) of the *.doc files on my Win2K > partition, mounted at /mnt/win2k. From the documentation, it seems like > CPIO is the choice using a find command; e.g.: > > find /mnt/win2k/*.doc | cpio -o ... > > This doesn't seem to work, however, in that the find command doesn't > return the path/filename of the *.doc files I'm trying to archive. > > What am I missing here? The manual for the find command, "man find". ;o) This would be closer: find /mnt/win2k -name '*.doc' | cpio -o > archive.cpio - -- Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/dQF60iMVcrivHFQRAtbbAJ0cwT3F49Di0sYdajszpKd/IS9NywCeK9SJ H8urcFcwmVzB13AIpNX//Ko= =wwkM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
