tar question...

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Dec 31 12:03:16 PST 2003


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 something similar to what you ask. What I do is tar a directory and all 
>it's contense EXCEPT one diectory. It goes something like this:
>
>tar -zcf  name.tgz --exclude MP3 dirname/
>
>Explanation:
>
>I'm tarring a dir. and excluding the dir MP3 and it's files.
>I'm sure you will be able to expand on this.
>
>Use  man tar to see all the switches.
>  
>

Sounds find, but wouldn't

$tar /home/foo/*

get this job done without including
subdirs, since there's no -R involved?

I read the OP's question as "I want to
tar all the files in a directory without
including any other directories..." which
would mean "any (sub)directories within
the directory would not be placed in the
tarball", right?


Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.



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