Hi James,

On 8/12/05, James B. Byrne ByrneJB@harte-lyne.ca wrote:

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On Fri Aug 12 17:14:00 UTC 2005 Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com wrote:

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How about

tar c $(find / -name *.conf) | ssh host.com "gzip -c > file.tar.gz"

Thank you very much, this worked. I have two supplementary questions. First, what is the significance of the $() construct in bash and how does it interact with tar? Does it take the place of standard input based on its position in the utility call?

The $() construct is command substitution. You often see it as a pair of backticks ``.

In your case, the "tar c" command is followed by the output from the find command.

See the following for more info: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/commandsub.html

Second, is there a way to exclude certain file names from matching that otherwise do? I have tried:

$(find / -name /*.conf && !*.so.conf)

and several variants without any success.

You could do this in at least two ways: $( find / -name /*.conf | grep -v "*.so.conf" ) $( find / -name /*.conf -not -name *.so.conf)

The former ignores any line endingin in .so.conf; the latter uses native find functionality.

I am not using rsync, yet, due to lack of familiarity with it and a pressing need to get something working now. Once the essentials are in place then I will look at alternatives.

Regards, Jim

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