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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users selective tar image and dir perms Post 22325 by gfarley on Friday 31st of May 2002 11:06:41 AM
Old 05-31-2002
Question selective tar image and dir perms
Hi,

I'm creating a tar image containing selected files held in a manifest file thus:

cat <manifest file> | xargs tar -cvpf tar.out

I need to preserve the directory as well as the file perms. When my list contains no separate directory lines, the directory is created implicitly when the first file is "untarred", but with incorrect permissions. My initial solution was to create a list entry for the directory. This preserves the dir perms, but of course grabs the entire directory contents.

Is it possible to tar up a directory entry without tar descending into it?

I'm on IRIX 6.5.6.

Thanks in advance.

Gary Farley.
 

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bf_tar

BF_TAR(1)						    Bogofilter Reference Manual 						 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
       files.

       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
       is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.

EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	   Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	   Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

       o   bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar

	   Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.

NOTES

       This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.

       This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.

       This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
       that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.

AUTHORS

       Matthias Andree

Bogofilter							    03/15/2010								 BF_TAR(1)
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