Bent Terp wrote:
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure there will be other ideas but in the absence of an "include these
files" file option, you could employ a simple loop to append the files in a
man tar:
-T, --files-from F
get names to extract or create from file F
Yes, I overlooked that option, as I imagine the OP did.
list to a tar archive. For example, if you had a file named "include" with
these 3 records
/bin/gawk
/etc/fstab
/etc/resolv.conf
This would cause the 3 files to be archived as "included.tar".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ while read inc ; do echo "including:" $inc ; tar -v -r
$inc -f
included.tar ; done < include
or: tar -jvrc included.tar.bz2 --files-from include
Almost....
1. Options "r" and "c" are mutually exclusive.
tar: You may not specify more than one `-Acdtrux' option
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
2. Without the "f" option, output goes to std out
This works:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar -jvcf included.tar.bz2 --files-from include
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/bin/gawk
/etc/fstab
/etc/resolv.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
I hope the OP has followed this far without giving up on our combined
blunders. :-(
BR Bent
KRS Robert
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