Re: tar question...

2003-12-31 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 1:21 pm, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've googled to search an aswer but no one match mine. I want to tar all files on a directory without include any other directory, I've tried with --exclude but no hope, any suggestion ??? Thanks... I dom something similar to

Re: tar question...

2003-12-31 Thread Dave Cantrell
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 13:21, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've googled to search an aswer but no one match mine. I want to tar all files on a directory without include any other directory, I've tried with --exclude but no hope, any suggestion ??? Thanks... man tar works for me: -n

Re: tar question...

2003-12-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2003 1:21 pm, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've googled to search an aswer but no one match mine. I want to tar all files on a directory without include any other directory, I've tried with --exclude but no hope, any suggestion ??? Thanks... I dom

Re: tar question...

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Risdon
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Sounds find, but wouldn't $tar /home/foo/* get this job done without including subdirs, since there's no -R involved? -R means show record number. Recursive is the default, -n is no recursive. PWR ___ [EMAIL

Re: tar question...

2003-10-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton typed: Hi list, the question is: can I tar a hole directory without include the tree ??? I mean when I tar all files in a /dir1/dir2/dir3 path, the tar file includes me the path too and I want to tar only the filenames in dir3: I'm

Re: tar question...

2003-10-29 Thread andi payn
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:56, Xpression wrote: Hi list, the question is: can I tar a hole directory without include the tree ??? I mean when I tar all files in a /dir1/dir2/dir3 path, the tar file includes me the path too and I want to tar only the filenames in dir3: I'm using the syntax tar

Re: Tar question

2003-09-03 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Charles Howse wrote: I'm a little confused about the arguments for tar. I want to tar the contents of a directory and save that .tgz file for backup purposes. Problem is, when I copy larry.tgz to /disk2 and: Tar xvfz larry.tgz It creates the /disk2 file structure within

Re: Tar question

2003-09-03 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 13:22, Charles Howse wrote: I'm a little confused about the arguments for tar. I want to tar the contents of a directory and save that .tgz file for backup purposes. Problem is, when I copy larry.tgz to /disk2 and: Tar xvfz larry.tgz It creates the /disk2 file

RE: Tar question

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
My suggestion is: tar cvCfz /disk2 larry.tgz . tar will cd to /disk2 before interpreting the dot - thus the content of /disk2 will be archived, but without a leading disk2 in the table of contents. Perfect! I saw the C argument in man tar, but didn't make the connection. Thanks very

Re: Tar question

2003-09-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm a little confused about the arguments for tar. I want to tar the contents of a directory and save that .tgz file for backup purposes. Problem is, when I copy larry.tgz to /disk2 and: Tar xvfz larry.tgz It creates the /disk2 file structure within /disk2. # cd # ls /disk2 #