tar question
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sun Nov 9 00:42:02 UTC 2008
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?
Look at the -T or the --files-from option to tar. You can put all of
the filenames in a single file and instruct to archive just the files
listed in that one file. Is this what you want?
> eg:
> tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz from selected file or tar zcvf
> select-file.tar.gz (from selected files in file.txt)?
tar zcvfT selected-file.tar.gx files.txt
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