28 January 2009

tar up directories only

To create a tar file containing only a dir structure in GNU/Linux, this seems to work nicely:
tar -cvf filename.tar --after-date YYMMDD *
Where YYMMDD is a date newer than all files in the dir(s) being tarred up. Picking a date in the future should do the job. Tar will include all the directories and none [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 28 January 2009 at 7:55 pm
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23 September 2006

Getting Images to Display in a FeedBurner Feed and Some Hasty Thoughts on Free Software

I'm trying out FeedBurner for managing my feeds and for email subscriptions. (See: New! In the right sidebar under the syndication links.) It was pretty easy to start using with the help of this WordPress FeedBurner plugin for redirecting the RSS and Atom feeds to FeedBurner. My initial impression of their service [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 23 September 2006 at 1:31 pm
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