I do not think you can do that - directories are files with data in them.
They certainly are, but on the systems I've played with it the OS doesn't let you play with their contents by means beyond mkdir, opendir, and unlink. It's also entirely possible to tar an empty directory:
Extracting that would amount to a mkdir and a chmod(confirmed on my system with strace). You can even tell tar, GNU tar at least, to not recurse into directories with --no-recursion, which will cause it to ignore all files in all directories you give it.
But I don't think you can force tar to pretend one particular directory is empty while recursing into the others. You could run tar twice, the first time adding the directories twice, the second time with the --append and --no-recusion options to add the 'empty' directories you want.
Last edited by Corona688; 02-02-2009 at 09:00 PM..
I received a tar file of a directory with 50,000 files in it. Is it possible to extract the files in the tar file without first creating the directory?
ie. Doing tar -xvf filename.tar extracts as follows:
x directory/file1.txt
x directory/file2.txt
.
.
.
I would like to avoid... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i have more than 300 tar files in directory and i want to zip all tar files to single file.
could anybody tell me the command since i know how to do zip for single tar file:
bash-3.00$gzip 2008_11_10.tar
bash-3.00$ pwd
/oracle1/archivebackup
in this directory i have lot files... (2 Replies)
Dear all
I want to create a tar file which contains all executable files in a specific directory
cd /appl/home/
file some_exe
some_exe: 64-bit XCOFF executable or object module not stripped
My current approach is to tar it one by one
tar -cvf test.tar exefile1
tar -uvf test.tar... (2 Replies)
I want to backup all the directory tress, including hidden directories, without copying any files.
find . -type d gives the perfect list.
When I tried tar, it won't work for me because it tars all the files.
find . -type d | xargs tar -cvf a.tar
So i tried rsync.
On my own test box, the... (4 Replies)
can someone give me a script to tar files that is older than 5 days in a directory that is not something like this:
fileArray=($(find -mtime +5 asdfasdf))
tar -cvf asfadfasdfa ${fileArray}
as the Unix I'm using has some problem with ($( )), I need another way to tar files in the folder.... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 Replies)
Quick question,
is it possible to make a Tar of completely directory and placing the tar file in it (will this cause even the tar file to tarred ?)
sample:
/opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf - /oracle | gzip > /oracle/backup.tgz
will the tar file backup.tgz also include backup.tgz ?
i tried... (5 Replies)
Hello, this is my first thread here :)
So i have a text file that contains words in each line like
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop
and i have 4 txt files, i want to add each line to each file, like file 1 gets abcd at the end; file 2 gets efgh at the end ....
I tried with:
cat test | while read -r... (6 Replies)
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git-tar-tree
GIT-TAR-TREE(1) Git Manual GIT-TAR-TREE(1)NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object
SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/).
Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files
in the generated tar archive.
git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used
as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used
instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id.
OPTIONS
<tree-ish>
The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object.
<base>
Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive.
--remote=<repo>
Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
CONFIGURATION
tar.umask
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write
bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details.
EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)
Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory.
git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.
git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header.
git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar
Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/.
AUTHOR
Written by Rene Scharfe.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[1]>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org
Git 1.7.1 07/05/2010 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)