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Old 08-02-2012
How to tar files inside a script?

Hi ,
I have a file which contains few file names. I need to tar those files but am unable to do inside the script. Any help will be useful.
Code:
cat /tmp/test
aa.txt
bb.txt
cc.txt

I have tried the below code but its not working.
Code:
for i in `cat /tmp/test';do tar -cvf TEST.tar $i;done


Last edited by Franklin52; 08-03-2012 at 05:41 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
rogerben
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Old 08-02-2012
Hi,
please check that the cat command is inside backticks (the last one seems a single quote instead).

Moreover, the -c switch of tar command results in the re-creation of the .tar archive at each for loop iteration; to avoid this use the -r switch instead of the -c switch.

let us know
see ya
fra
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Old 08-02-2012
Running tar 99,000 times to archive 99,000 files is painful to watch. Also see Useless Use of Cat and Useless Use of Backticks, which may cause your program to actually fail when there's large numbers of files.

Here, use this. It will run tar the minimum number of times actually needed.

Code:
xargs tar -rcf /path/to/file.tar < /tmp/test

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Old 08-02-2012
Code:
tar cvf myTar.tar -I /tmp/test

'/tmp/test' is a file with file names to be tar-ed up.
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Old 08-02-2012
sample file with filenames to be tar-ed
aa.txt bb.txt cc.txt
Code:
tar -cvf tarname.tar `cat path/to/file`


Last edited by Franklin52; 08-03-2012 at 05:42 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 08-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by praveen_reddy
sample file with filenames to be tar-ed
aa.txt bb.txt cc.txt

tar -cvf tarname.tar `cat path/to/file`
See useless use of cat and useless use of backticks.

There is a better way to convert stream data into commandline arguments known as 'xargs' which I have demonstrated above.
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Old 08-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
tar cvf myTar.tar -I /tmp/test

'/tmp/test' is a file with file names to be tar-ed up.
In case the OP is using GNU/Linux, that won't work. -I is a BSD-ish feature available on *BSD and Solaris (perhaps others?), but GNU uses -T instead.

I've come to embrace pax. It's consistent across platforms by virtue of being the only standardized archiver. It also fits very naturally into UNIX pipelines.
Code:
pax -w < /tmp/test > my.tar

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