I am having trouble with the syntax of using Gnu tar to do the following.
This is a simplified example of the real problem but maybe it will help.
The tape archive has a structure like this:
dir1/dir2/file1
dir1/dir2/file2
dir1/dir2/file3
...
dir/1/dir2/file999
Some of these files are very large so I need to distribute them around a
number of different file systems because no single file system can hold all
the files.
For example, I would like to extract like this:
file1-file199 into /u02/data
file200-399 into /u03/data
file400-999 into /u03/data
I have read the manual from gnu.org but it is not very good on examples. I
know I should be able to read a --files-from control file but cannot figure
out the syntax of how to set up the file. In it I would like to specify to
start by changing directories to /u02/data then specify the files to be
extracted using a wildcard. Can anyone confirm that this can be done and
show me an example?
Thanks
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