Helo.
Depending on your tar version, there's an option which allows you that. For instance, Solaris 9 tar man page says:
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X Exclude. Use the exclude-file argument as a file con-
taining a list of relative path names for files (or
directories) to be excluded from the tarfile when
using the functions c, x, or t. Be careful of trailing
white spaces. Also beware of leading white spaces,
since, for each line in the excluded file, the entire
line (apart from the newline) will be used to match
against the initial string of files to exclude. Multi-
ple X arguments may be used, with one exclude-file per
argument. In the case where included files (see -I
include-file option) are also specified, the excluded
files take precedence over all included files. If a
file is specified in both the exclude-file and the
include-file (or on the command line), it will be
excluded.
Anyway, you could do something like:
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touch /tmp/bck.tar && find /home/oracle/ddd[12] ! -name "*log" ! -name "*dmp" -type f -exec tar uvf /tmp/bck.tar {} \;
Hello,
I have a tar archive full of compressed .Z (compressed with the compress command) files. I have restored the tar to a disk but am looking for a way to uncompress every file in every sub-directory. Under normal circumstances, I would just change directories and "uncompress *" but with 1600... (3 Replies)
hey
how do you create a archive and add file to an existing archive.
i keep getting an error: dir/#: No such file or directory
currently using tar -cvfu name.tar files
files searching from a word document each line having different file extention.
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Hello!
I want to extract a choosen directory (and its contents) from a tar archive and i have tried what i believe is every option i could find in the manual.
I think i have done it once before, but i don't remeber how.
Could anyone please tell me how to do? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I make a tar archive:
tar -czvf /path_to/cucu.tar.gz /path/dir_to_archive/
In the archive the /path/dir_to_archive/ is maintained for every file.
I need that the archive to be made without the /path/dir_to_archive/ to contain only the files in /path/dir_to_archive/.
Thanks,... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a problem using Archive::Tar. it seem very trivial but i cannot get it work.
First I have a list of files I grab from a directory. Then I create a tar archive and write the files into the archive. everything works great, except that I cannot properly extract the files.
What... (0 Replies)
I have made tar archive of my system.. How can I make that tar archive to be bootable.. simply to install new linux from the archived tar file.. thanks in advance (8 Replies)
Hello Admins,
I am facing an issue with ustar tar archive on solaris 10.
By mistake I have created ustar tar archive of /var/adm/messages file on solaris10.
I am trying to untar the /var/adm/messages file . but I am not getting the original text messages file.
I user tar -xvf ... (4 Replies)
I cant seem to work out how to count the number of executable files in a particular tar archive? Only in a directory as a whole.
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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 10/22/2012 BF_TAR(1)