Hi ,guys! I had used the command:tar -N '2008/04/13' -zcvf test1.tar.gz . to package some files. there are some files modified before 2008/04/13 in the currently directory,but why they are in the test1.tar.gz too? Here ware what i did: [cjzjm100@localhost test1]$ ll total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 cjzjm100 cjzjm100 4096 04-13 19:18 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 cjzjm100 cjzjm100 0 04-10 20:57 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 cjzjm100 cjzjm100 0 04-01 00:00 hello1 -rw-r--r-- 1 cjzjm100 cjzjm100 0 04-10 21:18 hello2 drwxr--r-- 2 cjzjm100 cjzjm100 4096 04-13 17:11 testing [cjzjm100@localhost test1]$ rm -r 2 [cjzjm100@localhost test1]$ tar -N '2008/04/13' -zcvf test1.tar.gz . tar: Treating date `2008/04/13' as 2008-04-13 00:00:00 + 0 nanoseconds ./ ./testing/ ./testing/hello.c ./testing/hello2.c ./testing/hello ./hello1 ./test1.tar.gz ./hello2 ./hello why the files modified before 2008/04/13 like hello were also in the package? there is a file named test1.tar.gz in the test1.tar.gz,why? Reply With Quote