chloe K wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have number of selected files to backup and it is also in different
> folders
>
> How can I make it easy?
>
>
> eg:
>
> tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz from selected file or tar zcvf
> select-file.tar.gz (from selected files in file.txt)?
>
> Thank you for your help
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 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 at mavis ~]$ while read inc ; do echo "including:" $inc ; tar -v -r
$inc -f included.tar ; done < include
Just to be sure....
[rj at mavis ~]$ tar -tvf included.tar
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 320416 2007-03-14 09:48:15 bin/gawk
-rw-r--r-- root/root 874 2008-09-23 09:53:40 etc/fstab
-rw-r--r-- root/root 135 2008-08-21 21:18:43 etc/resolv.conf
[rj at mavis ~]$
The real challenge here is to compile the "include" file correctly.