9 Nov
2008
9 Nov
'08
9:04 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net 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
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". [rj@mavis ~]$ 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
BR Bent