Thank you. How about untar? I am using -T tar cvf file.tar -T file.txt inside file.txt, eg: /var/www/html/version/abc.html /var/www/html/version/image/abc.jpg how can I untar those files into /var/www/html instead of /var/www/html/version Thank you again Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail - Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081109/06202bb8/attachment-0005.html>