Shell Programming and Scripting

a=`more file.txt`

tar -cvf test.tar $a

where my file.txt contains
1.csv
2.csv
3.csv

test.tar to contain 1.csv and 2.csv

2> /dev/null

--exclude

tar: 3.csv: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

$ echo "a.csv
b.csv
c.csv" > files.txt

$ touch a.csv b.csv

$ ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  5 scott  staff  170 Nov 13 19:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 scott  staff  170 Nov 13 18:48 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Nov 13 19:03 a.csv
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Nov 13 19:03 b.csv
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff   18 Nov 13 19:02 files.txt
 
$ tar cvf test.tar -T files.txt 2> /dev/null

$ tar tvf test.tar
-rw-r--r--  0 scott  staff       0 Nov 13 19:03 a.csv
-rw-r--r--  0 scott  staff       0 Nov 13 19:03 b.csv

for f in `more file.txt`; do [[ -e "$f" ]] && echo "$f"; done >  sanitized.list
tar -cvf test.tar -T sanitized.list