On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:58, Ed K. wrote:On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: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
hum, then try:
find ~/the/dir/to/list -type d | tar -cvf /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz -T - --no-recursion
This just gives me directory names. What about the files in it? If I use -type f I get a complete tar!
I'm not sure any more what you want. Are you sure you want to use tar? Just to save a directory listing, a single file, could be done with:
ls -laR ~/the/dir/to/list | gzip > /tmp/dir-list.gz
tar is used to backup files.
ed
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