I'm afraid you are not being clear in your needs. Are you saying that under /path there are 10 directories, 1, 2, 3....9 & 10 and you only want to back up seven of them?
If so then you just add the directories you want to the list at the end of the tar command, so if we want 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9 we can run this:-
Indeed if the list is that simple, you can:-
..... but that is unlikely unless your directories have a specific name structure that you can match with an expression.
Some versions of tar allow an exclude or include list, e.g. AIX has the -L flag which is followed by a file containing the items to work with. To explore this further, please tell us the OS version an level.
I hope that this helps and that I haven't missed the point.
Hello
I try to tar a directory but I get this message
# tar cvfb my directory prox.tar
tar: invalid blocksize "prox.tar".
What Im doing wrong.
Solaris 5.6
And other question change this command with another version of solaris
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
OS: SunOS perfs01 5.8 Generic_117350-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
I want to tar a directory, but there are subdirectoires I want to exclude. Does anyone know how to do it?
Please help.
thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I need to tar the entire directory except one directory inside that.
I have used the below command
tar -cvfX test.tar bin/perl bin/
I need to tar all the directories inside the bindirectory except the perl directory
Please help me in solving this :b:
Regards,
Kalai (4 Replies)
HI,
if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains
tar -tvf pmapdata.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1625 Oct 13 20:00 2009... (1 Reply)
I m new to unix and trying to use tar command with -C option -
tar -cf /tmp/Test_shell/ZipTestFolder/archive10.tar -C /tmp/Test_shell/ZipTestFolder/ .
It creates one more folder no_name inside the tar file. any suggestions how to remove it. I m using aix 5.3 (8 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 Guys,
I am able to untar a tar.gz file. But it is again extracting the tar file to further child directory.
I even tried the below command to untar it to particular directory.
tar -zxvf gme_dly_sls_20120515035335.txt.tar.gz -C /sites/VSTAR/site/live/ftp/GMEUROPE
I am getting the below... (4 Replies)
Hi
i want to tar a directory.. i have tried few command but it is not working .
please let me know how to tar and untar a directory
below are the error which i am getting
tar -zxvf tl11cp01_042414_071123.tar.gz
tar: Not a recognized flag: z
tar -zxvf... (3 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)
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vfs-filesystems
vfs-filesystems(n) vfs-filesystems(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
vfs-filesystems - Filesystems provided by tclvfs
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4
package require vfs ?1.2.1?
package require vfs::zip ?1.0?
package require vfs::mk4 ?1.6?
package require vfs::tar ?0.9?
package require vfs::ftp ?1.0?
package require vfs::ns ?1.0?
package require vfs::webdav ?0.1?
package require vfs::http ?0.5?
package require vfs::urltype ?1.0?
vfs::zip::Mount path to
vfs::mk4::Mount path to
vfs::tar::Mount path to
vfs::ftp::Mount path to
vfs::ns::Mount path to
vfs::webdav::Mount path to
vfs::http::Mount path to
vfs::urltype::Mount path to
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The package vfs provides not only the means to implement a virtual filesystem at the tcl level, but also a number of ready to be used
filesystems as well.
Each of these filesystem exists as its own package, and can be accessed through package require vfs::NAME. The whole set of these virtual
filesystems is known informally as 'vfslib'.
SUPPORTED VFS TYPES
Currently supported are ftp, tar, http, zip, mk4, ns, and webdav. In addition there is the ability to mount any 'urltype' as a new direc-
tory, provided an appropriate vfs is supported. This means that you can treat urls based on the schemes ftp://, http:// and file:// as
files. To do this, simply evaluate the command vfs::urltype::Mount ftp for example. Any access inside the new volume will result in an
attempt to require a package through package require vfs::${type}, which must therefore exist, or errors will be thrown. If a filesystem
is loaded, use the associated command listed below to mount a source for that filesystem as a tcl directory.
vfs::zip::Mount path to
Mount the zip file path as directory to.
vfs::mk4::Mount path to
Mount the metakit database file file path as directory to.
vfs::tar::Mount path to
Mount the tar file path as directory to.
vfs::ftp::Mount path to
Mount the ftp url path as directory to.
vfs::ns::Mount path to
Mount the tcl namespace path as directory to.
vfs::webdav::Mount path to
Mount the webdav url path as directory to.
vfs::http::Mount path to
Mount the http url path as directory to.
vfs::urltype::Mount path to
Mount the url path, of type urltype as directory to.
LIMITATIONS
Most of the vfs types listed above have not been very well debugged as yet. Please test them!
SEE ALSO
vfs, vfs-fsapi
KEYWORDS
file, filesystem, ftp, http, metakit, namespace, tar, vfs, vfslib, webdav, zip
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
Copyright (c) 2003 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
Tcl-level Virtual Filesystems 1.0 vfs-filesystems(n)