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create tarball from input list - albytrott - 2009-11-24
Hello all, noob here :-)
I am looking at creating a tar archive using a file list to specify the files to archive, I have looked through the man page and searched the internet and I can't find anything. Any ideas how I can do this?
Many thanks
Stephen
create tarball from input list - Dungeon-Dave - 2009-11-27
I believe the "-T" option allows you can specify a file containing a list of source objects:
tar -vf /tmp/archive.tar -T /tmp/file.list
Will that do?
Alternatively, script something that works through each file and uses the "-A" option to append to the .tar file.