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Sep 21, 2003, 2:48 PM

Andy

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Sep 21, 2003, 2:48 PM

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GNU Tar homepage?

I've been searching for about an hour now.. and no matter how hard I look, I can find the official tar homepage. Anyone got any pointers? I'm trying to have a play with the --exclude option (want to exclude files in the /backup/ folder) ... but I'm not sure if it supports folders.

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Sep 21, 2003, 2:59 PM

Andy

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Sep 21, 2003, 2:59 PM

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Welp, figured out the folder excluding option now.

tar -cvvf admin.tar ../admin --exclude=backup

Still would be interesting to know where the official homepage of Tar is Smile

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:00 PM

Chaz

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:00 PM

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Hey Andy, is this what you are looking for?

Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
Official Manual: http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/index.html

Quote:

--exclude=pattern
When performing operations, tar will skip files that match pattern. @FIXME-xref{}.
--exclude-from=file
-X file
Similar to `--exclude', except tar will use the list of patterns in the file file. @FIXME-xref{}.

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:03 PM

Andy

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:03 PM

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Ah..thanks for the link. Managed to work out the --exclude option anyway.

If you do a search on Google for "official GNU tar homepage" , it gives loads of links.. but I couldn't find that link Frown

I'll have to bookmark that one. Ended up making do with the man pages Tongue

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:08 PM

Chaz

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:08 PM

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Try searching for GNU Tar. It comes up as the first link :) I had to go back and re-read your question a couple of times. I couldn't figure out how you didn't spot that. I thought maybe I was missing something.

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:09 PM

Andy

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Sep 21, 2003, 3:09 PM

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Whoops

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Sep 26, 2003, 2:05 AM

Andy

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Sep 26, 2003, 2:05 AM

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Mmmm...any ideas how to make folders with no data in them, actually get put into the .tar file? It seems that folders with no data/files in them, simply don't get put into the tar file?

I've had quite a good look over the TAR homepage/manual, but can't see anything :(

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Sep 29, 2003, 9:56 AM

Andy

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Sep 29, 2003, 9:56 AM

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Anyone?

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Sep 29, 2003, 11:42 AM

Alex

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Sep 29, 2003, 11:42 AM

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Empty folders are put into tar's (at least with the version I'm using):

[alex@penguin alex]$ mkdir foo
[alex@penguin alex]$ tar czvf test.tar.gz foo
foo/
[alex@penguin alex]$ tar tzvf test.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x alex/cvs 0 2003-09-29 11:42:01 foo/
[alex@penguin alex]$

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Sep 30, 2003, 1:33 AM

Andy

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Sep 30, 2003, 1:33 AM

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Mmm...maybe its just when windows extracts them locally, it doesn't create them?

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