Question

I have the folder a with two files (1,2), and the subfolder b with another two files (3,4).

I ´d like to tar a with ‘1,2,3,4’ files in the tar file, but not including b.

(By default (tar cvf), b is added, and ‘3,4’ are inside b. How can I do it?)

Thanks

Answer 1

you can use a script like this:

# ! /bin/sh
files=`cat list.list`
tarname="test.tar"
tarpath=`pwd`
#create empty tar
tar -cvf $tarpath/$tarname --files-from /dev/null

for curr_file in $files
do
   #add each file separatly
   cd `dirname $curr_file`
   tar -uvf $tarpath/$tarname `basename $curr_file`
   cd -
done

and create the filelist with a command like this:

find -type f > list.list