Re: GNUtar doesn't fit my needs...

From: Michael Wang (mwang_at_unixlabplus.com)
Date: 11/21/03


Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:44:46 +0000

In article <3FBB4A10.9080200@cyber.kodak.com>,
Jean-Luc BEAUDET <beaudet@cyber.kodak.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Working under SOLARIS 5.6 i'm trying to GNUtar the content of a whole
>dir BUT one subdir.
>
>Assuming the following
>
>/my/main/dir/subdir1
>..................../subdir2
>..................../subdir3
>..................../subdir4
>
>I'd like to GNUtar /my/main/dir with all subdirs BUT subdir1

Jean-Luc,

Can you use "find" to list "/my/main/dir with all subdirs BUT subdir1"?
Yes? good. Then you can pipe the list to tar:

find ... | tar ... --files-from=-

Hope this helps.

-- 
Michael Wang * http://www.unixlabplus.com/ * mwang@unixlabplus.com


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