gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x58248100.hantslug.org.uk.18210': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Mon May 21 16:46:40 2007 BST
gpg: using DSA key 2099B64CBF15490B
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:04:58PM +0100, Brian Chivers wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> >Hi Brian,
> >
> >On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:25:07AM +0100, Brian Chivers wrote:
> >>I've been playing with all the options and it would appear that the user
> >>who has created the files likes to use STUPID characters like brackets in
> >>her filenames :-/ and this is causing the script to error out at random
> >>points so I've been having a rethink.
> >
> >Does what I suggested in:
> >
> > http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/lurker/message/20070508.120756.ee622777.en.html
> >
> >not work?
> >
> Not tried it yet, trying to get my mind round what each of the bits does.
Okay,
find /path -type f -atime +365 -print0 | xargs -0 tar pcf - | (cd /target && tar pxvf -)
find /path -type f -atime +365
Find files whose last *access time* was more than 365 days
ago. If you prefer to use your mtime rule as before then do
that instead. -atime's not going to work if the filesystem
is munted noatime, either.
-print0
Print the names of the above files delimited by ascii NUL
characters. This allows the filenames/paths to contain
anything, so solves your problem of things like spaces,
brackets, or other shell metacharacters.
| xargs -0
Pipe that list of paths through xargs -0, which takes a list
of NUL-separated things and passes them to a command..
tar pcf -
The tar command will compress (-c) the list of files it gets
from xargs, preserving permissions (-p), and it will write
out a tar archive to its standard output (-f -).
| (cd /target && tar pxvf -)
The standard output of the previous tar gets piped through
this subshell, which changes directory to your target, and
runs another tar to extract (-x) its standard input (-f -)
verbosely (-v) preserving permissions (-p).
Could probably also be done as just:
tar -C /target pxvf -
but I'm set in my ways..
Hope that makes more sense.
Cheers,
Andy
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