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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Zip all the files including directories - subdirectories Post 302665435 by Irishboy24 on Monday 2nd of July 2012 01:44:24 PM
Old 07-02-2012
Hi,

Yes this can be acheive by the tar and gzip command. Look up the man pages for more details but below is a short example.

Code:
This is the dir structure of test, it has sub dirs test1 and test2 and even files underneath. 
test/
test/test1/
test/test2/

# you will have to create the archive of the dirs you want by doing this 

tar -cvf test.tar test # test.tar is the name you are giving to ur tar file. 
                              # test is the dir. note you can specify multiple dirs by   giving a space ex: test1 test 2 ..so on

# once your tar is created, use gzip to compress the tar ball. 

gzip test.tar 

# if you want to extract the tar you can do so by following :
# gunzip and then extract. 

gunzip test.tar.gz /tmp/wherevr # this will un-compress the tar ball.

tar -xvf test.tar /tmp/wherver # this will extract the tar ball with all the sub dirs and files underneath.

 

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virt-tar-out(1) 					      Virtualization Support						   virt-tar-out(1)

NAME

       virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

       The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use "-" to
       write to standard output.

EXAMPLES

       Download the home directories from a guest:

	virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
       copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

AUTHORS

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

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