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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to rsync or tar directory trees, with hidden directory, but without files? Post 302454573 by fld2007 on Sunday 19th of September 2010 01:34:23 AM
Old 09-19-2010
Tried it, got an error:
Quote:
bash-2.05$ cd /home/dir1 ; tar cvf a.tar `ls -la | grep ^d | grep -Ev '\.\.$|\.$' | sed 's/.* //'`
grep: illegal option -- E
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
tar: Missing filenames
If I remove E, the command runs, but it tars up everything under/home, not just dir1 Smilie

The part in ` ` gives all the dirs under /home/dir1 that I want to backup, just tar behaves weirdly. Any ideas?
 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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