On 10/11/2012 12:18, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Alex Antener <[email protected]> ha escrit:
I don't know if this is worth a bug report, but it looks like GNU tar
does not accept wildcards in combination of the -C option.
Wildcards are expanded by shell, not by tar. Tar reats all its
non-optional arguments as file names. When you call it like this:
tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz *.sql
the shell tries to find files matching *.sql and replaces it with
their names. Since there are no matching files in the cwd, it leaves
the argument as is and then invokes tar.
Regards,
Sergey
Try this:
tar -C ~/foobar -cvf archive.tar `ls ~/foobar | grep '.sql$'`
