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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make Shell script of using tar command? Post 302930875 by RudiC on Thursday 8th of January 2015 10:49:03 AM
Old 01-08-2015
Not sure what exactly you want to achieve. tar by itself will backup the entire tree that it is pointed to, you can exclude files and directories if need be, and then, if /dis/wis is on the same file system as /home/admin, a simple rename (mv) should suffice...?

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DDIR(1) 						      cvs status - formatter							   DDIR(1)

NAME
ddir - display hierarchical directory tree SYNOPSIS
ddir [options] DIR DESCRIPTION
Display an indented directory tree using ASCII graphical characters to represent the hierarchical structure. The directories to include or exclude can be specified with command line options. Ddir is a Perl implementation of the tree(1) program. OPTIONS
-d, --dir Display only directories. -h, --help Print text help --help-exclude Print default exclude path value when --exclude-vcs is used. --help-html Print help in HTML format. --help-man Print help in manual page man(1) format. -i, --include REGEXP Include files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times. If this option is not supplied, every file is automatically included. The matches can be further filtered by using options --exclude. -v, --verbose LEVEL Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more verbosity. -V, --version Print contact and version information. -x, --exclude REGEXP Ignore files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times. This option is applied after possible --include matches. -C, --exclude-vcs Exclude version control directories. See --help-exclude. EXAMPLES
Show directory tree by excluding version control directories. Display only directories: ddir --x-vcs --dir . . +--doc/ | +--manual/ +--bin/ TROUBLESHOOTING
None. EXAMPLES
None. ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
tree(1) COREQUISITES
Uses standard Perl modules. AVAILABILITY
Homepage is at http://freshmeat.net/projects/ddir AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jari Aalto. Copyright (C) 1994 Brian Blackmore. LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify program under the terms of GNU General Public license either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. perl v5.10.1 2010-03-16 DDIR(1)
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