04-17-2003
Well the situation is as follows.
I've got a couple of directories containing files.
/appl/data
/appl/data/temp1
/appl/data/temp2
Now I would like to backup the directory /appl/data, but NOT the 2 temp directories.
So my command was as follows:
find /appl/data -name 'temp*' -prune -o -print | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/datadir.tar
This works but not completely because in the tar-file it is:
first everything (so also the temp-dir) and appended to the file is exactly what I want (so /appl/data and not the temp-dir). I am wondering what am I doing wrong ?
I hope someone can help me.
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NAME
shtool-tarball - GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs
SYNOPSIS
shtool tarball [-t|--trace] [-v|--verbose] [-o|--output tarball] [-c|--compress prog] [-d|--directory directory] [-u|--user user]
[-g|--group group] [-e|--exclude pattern] path [path ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command is for rolling input files under path into a distribution tarballs which can be extracted by tar(1).
The four important aspects of good open source software tarballs are: (1) unpack into a single top-level directory, (2) top-level directory
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OPTIONS
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-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-o, --output tarball
Output tarball to file tarball.
-c, --compress prog
Pipe resulting tarball through compression program prog.
-d, --directory directory
Sets the top-level directory into which the tarball unpacks. By default it is tarball without the trailing ".tar.*" extension.
-u, --user user
The user (owner) of files and directories in the tarball to user.
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-e, --exclude pattern
Exclude files and directories matching comma-separated list of regex pattern from the tarball. Directories are expanded before the
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...
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HISTORY
The GNU shtool tarball command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
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shtool(1), tar(1), compress(1).
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