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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Tar only files with a pattern Post 302928166 by sea on Tuesday 9th of December 2014 12:50:15 PM
Old 12-09-2014
Dear IColli

Have no practice with such a situation, but according to the error message part you posted, i'd try:
Code:
tar -axX *.control.* -f "tarball.tar.gz"

(i mis-aranged the syntax in prior post)

That is since I understand it like the pattern is to be search in the tarball FILE.
But now writing, actualy you want to exlcude everything else, but only 'include' *control*...

This said, i guess it would be easier (for later) to now extract everything, and make a new tarball only including those *.control.* files.

Hope this helps

---------- Post updated at 18:50 ---------- Previous update was at 18:47 ----------

HA... lol...
Even simpler...

Code:
tar -axf tarball.tar.gz *.control.*

sry
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reporter-upload

REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)						 LIBREPORT MANUAL						REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)

NAME

       reporter-upload - Uploads compressed tarball of problem directory.

SYNOPSIS

       reporter-upload [-c CONFFILE]... [-d DIR] [-u URL]

DESCRIPTION

       The tool is used to create a compressed tarball of the problem directory and upload it to a URL. Supported protocols include FTP, FTPS,
       HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP and FILE.

   Configuration file
       Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value".

       The options are:

       URL
	   The URL where tarball should be uploaded.

   Integration with ABRT events
       reporter-upload can be used as a reporter, to allow users to upload compressed tarballs of problem directories to a configured URL. This
       usage can be configured in /etc/libreport/report_event.conf:

	   EVENT=report_Upload reporter-upload

       It can be also used on the post-create event to upload it automatically.

	   EVENT=post-create reporter-upload

OPTIONS

       -d DIR
	   Path to problem directory.

       -c CONFFILE
	   Path to configuration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via
	   environment variables.

       -u URL
	   The URL where tarball should be uploaded. URL should have form protocol://[user[:pass]@]host/dir/[file.tar.gz] where protocol can be
	   http(s), ftp, scp, or file. File protocol can't have user and host parts: file.tar.gz[1]. If URL ends with a slash, the archive name
	   will be generated and appended to URL; otherwise, URL will be used as full file name.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Environment variables take precedence over values provided in the configuration file.

       Upload_URL
	   The URL where should be the tarball uploaded.

AUTHORS

       o   ABRT team

NOTES

	1. file.tar.gz
	   file:///dir/

LIBREPORT 2.1.11						    06/18/2014							REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)
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