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Excluding files using tar cXzf
Post 79543 by sampipe on Thursday 28th of July 2005 09:22:39 AM
07-28-2005
cheers infierno for the pointer.. but still no luck.. see below... It should be simple but I think I'm going mad.. 
Sam
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar cvX exclude_file -f new_archive.tar 1_dir/
1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
./1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar -tvf new_archive.tar
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-28 12:33:36 1_dir/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-28 12:34:08 1_dir/1_1_dir/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2 2005-07-28 12:37:48 1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2 2005-07-28 12:37:34 1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
root@node1 [~/tmp]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-021stab028.12.777-enterprise (st@current.eng.sw.ru) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 SMP Fri May 13 15:50:02 MSD 2005
Sam
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar cvX exclude_file -f new_archive.tar 1_dir/
1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
./1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar -tvf new_archive.tar
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-28 12:33:36 1_dir/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-28 12:34:08 1_dir/1_1_dir/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2 2005-07-28 12:37:48 1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2 2005-07-28 12:37:34 1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
root@node1 [~/tmp]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-021stab028.12.777-enterprise (st@current.eng.sw.ru) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 SMP Fri May 13 15:50:02 MSD 2005
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chroot
chroot(1M) System Administration Commands chroot(1M) NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/chroot newroot command DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility causes command to be executed relative to newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the path names is changed to newroot for command and any of its child processes. Upon execution, the initial working directory is newroot. Notice that redirecting the output of command to a file, chroot newroot command >x will create the file x relative to the original root of command, not the new one. The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a chroot is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to the current root of the running process. This command can be run only by the super-user. RETURN VALUES
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Example 1 Using the chroot Utility The chroot utility provides an easy way to extract tar files (see tar(1)) written with absolute filenames to a different location. It is necessary to copy the shared libraries used by tar (see ldd(1)) to the newroot filesystem. example# mkdir /tmp/lib; cd /lib example# cp ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 libdl.so.1 libsec.so.1 /tmp/lib example# cp /usr/bin/tar /tmp example# dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | chroot /tmp tar xvf - ATTRIBUTES
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