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Old 03-24-2017
Tar.gz/zip folders in a directory with _EBASE string
Hi Folks -

Happy Friday and I hope you all are well!

What's the easiest way to tar.gz / zip all direct children directories in a folder that have the string _EBASE (suffix)?

Thank you!
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Old 03-24-2017
Do you want single archive file or one for each directory?
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Old 03-24-2017
If you could provide both options that would be great. Else, just a single directory to house all of them would be fine.

Thank you!
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Old 03-24-2017
This is somewhere cpio works better than tar, as tar has a hard time reading in arbitrary lists of files / folders, while cpio always does that.

Code:
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*_EBASE' -print | cpio -ov -H tar | gzip > archive.tar.gz

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Old 03-24-2017
Thank you so much!

Can i specify a directory or can we only search the entire directory tree?
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Old 03-24-2017
Replace . with the directory you want.
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Old 04-04-2017
Hi Folks -

Sorry for the delay - I'm sut getting around to work on this finally.

It seems to work, but getting an error saying file name too long with cpio:

Quote:
cpio: /u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/epmsystem1/import_export/Reporting_Analysis_Automation_Base/: file name too long
/u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/epmsystem1/import_export/FDMEE_Automation_Base/
/u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/epmsystem1/import_export/PLN_HC_Automation_Base/
4 blocks
What is the best course of action?

Thanks!

---------- Post updated at 12:07 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:58 AM ----------

I got it using this:

Code:
find ${_PROC_EXP_PATH} -type d -name "*_Base" | tar -P -zcvf ${_PROC_PREP_PATH}/LCM_Exports_${_DATETIMESTAMP} -T -

Thank you again!
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