Goal: read list of dirs from STDIN, and archive only the dirs not the contents.
If the list is 5 dirs then the archive is exactly 5 dirs, with none of the
contents in
those dirs.
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thanks,
Tom
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Example that fails:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
$ echo ~/.config/ | tar -cvf /dev/null -T - --no-recursion 2>&1 |head -4
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/a/myself/.config/
/a/myself/.config/ranger/
/a/myself/.config/ranger/history
>From 'info tar':
Specifying '--no-recursion' is a way to tell 'tar' to grab only the
directory
entries given to it, adding no new files on its own. To summarize, if
you use 'find' to create a list of files to be stored in an archive, use
it as follows:
$ find DIR TESTS | \
tar -cf ARCHIVE -T - --no-recursion
