Re: glib 1.2 way of doing a tar/find backup?

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

ahem, of course that's "its" not "it's"

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:52:13 +0000, John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:03:08 -0400, Tony Freeman
> <tony freeman insightbb com> wrote:
> > I can tar and gzip the data
> > really easy into a temp directory using a shell command:
> >
> > tar -czf /tmp/20040808_backup.tar.gz `find /data/monday -daystart -cmin
> > +1440 -cmin -2880`
> >
> > How can I do this in C/glib/gtk =< 1.2?
>
> The easiest is system( "my-shell-command" ); although your interface
> will appear to lock up while it does it's work. If you want to stay
> live and give feedback, the next easiest is to run the shell command
> as a background job (just put an "&" at the end) and poll in a timeout
> for completion (in my opinion).