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Old 12-07-2009
Need help with tar script
The following script is supposed to look at a list of files and folders and tar them all up. Ofcourse you have to strip off everything to the left of the file or folder to tar only that object. My problem is that when I do that my script no longer knows how to find the file or folder. Is there a way of saving in a variable the location of the object you want to tar and have it passed to the for loop with each iteration. I'm trying to stay away from nested loops. Thanks in advance for your help.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
for p in `cat /data/results/filelist`
do
i=`echo $p | awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"}{print $NF}'`
cd $p && tar czf ../$i.tar.gz $i
done

filelist below:

/data/results/solid0155/solid0155_20090918_2x35_LMP_FC2
/data/results/RegressionDriver/CaseManager/tests_era2/cases/performance/155_2x35
_FC2_run_outputs_tillSam
/share/reference/genomes/chromFa/hg18_validated.fasta
/data/results/README



---------- Post updated at 10:35 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:53 AM ----------

tested solution that a poster gave me:

Code:
tar czf tarball.tar.gz --files-from /data/results/fileslist 

 filelist below:

 /data/results/a/file1
 /data/results/a/b/file2
 /data/results/a/b/c/file3
 /data/results/a/b/c/d/file4
 /data/results/a/test1
 /data/results/a/b/test2
 /data/results/a/b/c/test3
 /data/results/a/b/c/d/test4

 You end up with:

 [root@offline01 results]# ls -ld tarball.tar.gz
 -rw-rw-r--  1 root users 273 Dec  7 11:18 tarball.tar.gz

Last edited by pludi; 12-07-2009 at 03:46 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
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