I have the following...
rgdb
with...
db1
db2
db3
db4
db5
Within the rgdb directory.
I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
I want to run this from a script.

I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
handle around this one...
Any help..

In comp.unix.misc LHradowy <laura.hradowy@nospam.mts.ca> wrote:
> I have the following...
> rgdb
> with...
> db1
> db2
> db3
> db4
> db5
> Within the rgdb directory.
> I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
> db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
> I want to run this from a script.
>
> I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
> handle around this one...

Well, just use some basic Unix shell lines:
tar cf rgdb/db5/bla.tar `ls -d rgdb/*/. | grep -v rgdb/db5/`
.... or so.


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LHradowy wrote:
>
> I have the following...
> rgdb
> with...
> db1
> db2
> db3
> db4
> db5
> Within the rgdb directory.
> I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
> db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
> I want to run this from a script.
>
> I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
> handle around this one...
> Any help..

tar cvf repository ./rgdb/db1 ./rgdb/db2 ./rgdb/db3 ./rgdb/db4

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In article <AFmOa.6378$V8.3982@news1.mts.net>,
LHradowy <laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca> wrote:
>I have the following...
>rgdb
>with...
>db1
>db2
>db3
>db4
>db5
>Within the rgdb directory.
>I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
>db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
>I want to run this from a script.

star -c -V pat=db5* -C rgdb . > /tmp/somfile.tar

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php

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In article <becvv4$3nlsq$1@ID-180809.news.dfncis.de>,
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
>In comp.unix.misc LHradowy <laura.hradowy@nospam.mts.ca> wrote:
>> I have the following...
>> rgdb
>> with...
>> db1
>> db2
>> db3
>> db4
>> db5
>> Within the rgdb directory.
>> I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
>> db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
>> I want to run this from a script.
>>
>> I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
>> handle around this one...
>
>Well, just use some basic Unix shell lines:
>tar cf rgdb/db5/bla.tar `ls -d rgdb/*/. | grep -v rgdb/db5/`
>... or so.

Sounds prone to problems.....

If the only reason for excluding the directory db5, is to avoid that the
tar archive becomes part of itself, just use star. Star will detect the
archive and auto-exclude it from the list of files that go into the archive:

star -c f=db5/xx.tar .

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php

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Hallo,

I would use the fillowing commands:

$ echo rgdb/db5 >/tmp/exclude.$$
$ tar cXf /tmp/exclude.$$ rgdb/db5/dump.tar rgdb
$ rm -f /tmp/exclude.$$

With the X parameter, you can define a file containing all the names of
files and directories that have to be excluded from the tar file (see the
manual pages).

Vincent


"LHradowy" <laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca> wrote in message
news:AFmOa.6378$V8.3982@news1.mts.net...
> I have the following...
> rgdb
> with...
> db1
> db2
> db3
> db4
> db5
> Within the rgdb directory.
> I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
> db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
> I want to run this from a script.
>
> I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
> handle around this one...
> Any help..
>
>
>

> I have the following...
> rgdb
> with...
> db1
> db2
> db3
> db4
> db5
> Within the rgdb directory.
> I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
> db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
> I want to run this from a script.
>
> I did not see any examples in the man pages. And I cant seem to get an
> handle around this one...
> Any help..

How would I compress it at the same time, when I try to do a tar zcvf, it
does not recognize the -z option...

In article <LzBOa.8114$V8.5450@news1.mts.net>,
LHradowy <laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca> wrote:

>How would I compress it at the same time, when I try to do a tar zcvf, it
>does not recognize the -z option...

The -z option is only recognised by GNU tar or star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star
http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php


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In article <AFmOa.6378$V8.3982@news1.mts.net>,
LHradowy <laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca> wrote:
>I have the following...
>rgdb
>with...
>db1
>db2
>db3
>db4
>db5
>Within the rgdb directory.
>I want to tar all that is under the rgdb directory (recursive) but not the
>db5 directory. This is where I want to put the tar file.
>I want to run this from a script.

tar cf db5/file.tar db1 db2 db3 db4

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