>On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:28, Robert Nichols wrote:
>>
>> If you're building a list of things to include in a tar archive,
>> never include a directory name unless you really want *everything*
>> below that directory. There is no way to include just a directory
>> name in a tar archive without having tar recurse into that directory.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Nichols rnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
Not strictly true, and probably depends on your version of tar to some
extent.. however :
slick: {6} tar --norecurse -cvf foo.tar foo
foo/
slick: {7} ls foo
LICENSE.txt README.txt WebServer setup setup.inf
Only added the directory, not the contents or subdirectories.
Cheers,
Al
