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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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On 23/05/2016 10:40, x y wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The MS Office applications are changing the ctime value of .doc and
> .xls files even if they are not modified. Opening and closing an
> office file without modifying the content is changing ctime and the
> unmodified document is included in the incremental tar archive. Could
> it be possible to use the mtime value instead of ctime to avoid the
> the reappearance of the unchanged files in the incremental archive?
>
> Test OS  : Windows 7 Sp1
>


find -ctime should be able you to build the list of files
that are changed and that tar should process

Regards
Marco

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