Aaron, Thank you for putting me down this path. A few flags aside, this is the solution I was looking for.
BTW, OpenBSD's man pages are a cut above the rest; and I'd like to thank everyone involved in the project for such an awesome OS. All the best, Keith Larsen CPS Coatings On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:26:29 +1100 Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your best bet is to generate a list and use it to build your archive - > save a bit of effort and create your omit list: > > # cd /site1/omit > # find . > /tmp/siteXX-omit.lst > > Then use this list to filter out any unwanted files from /share > and /append: > > # cd /share > # find . | grep -v -f /tmp/siteXX-omit.lst | xargs tar > -czpvf /site1/siteXX.tgz # cd /append > # find . | grep -v -f /tmp/xiteXX-omit.lst | xargs tar > -rzpvf /site1/siteXX.tgz > > Then, for cleanliness' sake: > > # rm /tmp/siteXX-omit.lst > > Hope this helps > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:44 AM, BSD <b...@cpscoatings.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:07:45 +1100 > > Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> It's a bit long winded, but here's a possibility: > >> > >> # cd / > >> # tar zcpvf siteXX.tgz /share/* /siteX/* > >> <output omitted> > >> # tar ztf siteXX.tgz | grep '^/share' | xargs rm -f > >> > >> Though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "on a per site > >> basis" in this context, can you elaborate please, especially if > >> the above solution is not what you need. > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:20 AM, BSD <b...@cpscoatings.net> > >> wrote: > >> > Does misc@ have an alternative method for "gtar --delete"? > > > > Sorry for any vagueness! I don't wish to delete any files > > from /share, but have a subset of /share in siteXX.tgz. Also should > > have mentioned that /share, /append, and /omit cannot be in the > > path because siteXX.tgz is plopped on / during an install. > > > > What I have so far is to first create an archive using files > > in /share. > > > > # cd /share > > # tar -cpvf /site1/siteXX.tgz * > > <output omitted> > > > > Then I append to that archive using files in /site1/append. > > > > # cd /site1/append/ > > # tar -rpvf /site1/siteXX.tgz * > > <output omitted> > > > > Next is where I am stuck. Removing files from the archive that are > > FROM /share that are not wanted in /site1/siteXX.tgz. I planned to > > have an empty file of the same name in /site1/omit for each file to > > delete from the archive. > > > > # cd /site1/omit/ > > # tar --delete /site1/siteXX.tgz * > > ^^^^^^^^ > > invalid flag > > > > Or perhaps I need to have a list of the files that gets appended and > > redacted before ever creating the archive. > > > > Hope this picture got clearer...
