On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:23, Ed K. wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I need help, > > > > EIther google isn't finding the stuffs or my search terms are too > > muddled. > > > > I just want to create a tar archive from a directory file listing. > > > > something like > > > > ls -laR ~/the/dir/to/list | tar -cvf - /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz > > > > I can't seem to find the correct syntax > > I think you are looking for something like: > > find ~/the/dir/to/list -type f | tar -cvf /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz -T - This didn't work either. End up with the same problem as Alexander's suggestion. I only want the directory listing. I do not want to tar up the files too
