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  • Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
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  • please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
    – ptetteh227
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  • @ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
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    Nov 21 at 11:48










  • There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
    – Jasil Op
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  • Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
    – S_Flash
    Nov 21 at 11:13










  • please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
    – ptetteh227
    Nov 21 at 11:14










  • @ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 11:48










  • There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 12:34










  • @JasilOp Please edit your question to add all the details you posted in comments. It helps to keep our Q&A style tidy and could also bring more attention since an edited question gets bounced on the homepage. See also How do comments work?
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  • Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
    – S_Flash
    Nov 21 at 11:13










  • please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
    – ptetteh227
    Nov 21 at 11:14










  • @ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 11:48










  • There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 12:34










  • @JasilOp Please edit your question to add all the details you posted in comments. It helps to keep our Q&A style tidy and could also bring more attention since an edited question gets bounced on the homepage. See also How do comments work?
    – Melebius
    Nov 21 at 13:26


















  • Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
    – S_Flash
    Nov 21 at 11:13










  • please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
    – ptetteh227
    Nov 21 at 11:14










  • @ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 11:48










  • There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
    – Jasil Op
    Nov 21 at 12:34










  • @JasilOp Please edit your question to add all the details you posted in comments. It helps to keep our Q&A style tidy and could also bring more attention since an edited question gets bounced on the homepage. See also How do comments work?
    – Melebius
    Nov 21 at 13:26
















Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
– S_Flash
Nov 21 at 11:13




Need example. Is not clean what period you mean.
– S_Flash
Nov 21 at 11:13












please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
– ptetteh227
Nov 21 at 11:14




please would you like to tar the whole directory based on the current date or tar individual files based on current date
– ptetteh227
Nov 21 at 11:14












@ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
– Jasil Op
Nov 21 at 11:48




@ptetteh227 directory itself containing lot of files,so i want to compress one day to next day's files(example 2018-11-19 to 2018-11-20).So mentioning every file is very much difficulty.
– Jasil Op
Nov 21 at 11:48












There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
– Jasil Op
Nov 21 at 12:34




There is a folder contains lot files , so i want to compress a particular day's files completely.@S_Flash
– Jasil Op
Nov 21 at 12:34












@JasilOp Please edit your question to add all the details you posted in comments. It helps to keep our Q&A style tidy and could also bring more attention since an edited question gets bounced on the homepage. See also How do comments work?
– Melebius
Nov 21 at 13:26




@JasilOp Please edit your question to add all the details you posted in comments. It helps to keep our Q&A style tidy and could also bring more attention since an edited question gets bounced on the homepage. See also How do comments work?
– Melebius
Nov 21 at 13:26










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I would use find then pipe that into tar u.



 find . -type f -newermt 2018-11-20 -not -newermt 2018-11-21 | tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz





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     find . -type f -newermt 2018-11-20 -not -newermt 2018-11-21 | tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz





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