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
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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 somethi
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
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
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
> 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 -czf /path/to/store/myfile.tgz
> /the/path/wh
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
>
> 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
> 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.
Than
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 /disk
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
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