Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:10:47 +0100 From: Wael Nasreddine <mla@nasreddine.com> To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar backup script Message-ID: <20080214051047.GC31520@phoenix.nasreddine.info> In-Reply-To: <5c99941f0802131957t3fa8f7bo66c30cebfa54d7b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c99941f0802131957t3fa8f7bo66c30cebfa54d7b6@mail.gmail.com>
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--Fig2xvG2VGoz8o/s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This One Time, at Band Camp, Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com> said, = On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:57:22PM -0500: > this isn't really bsd specific but i still need help with it. im writing= a > backup script a clip from that script is this: > find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name config.php > > /usr/local/backupScript/include > find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name ClientFiles >> > /usr/local/backupScript/include > tar cvf /usr/local/backupScript/files/www-client-files.tar -I > /usr/local/backupScript/include /usr/local/www/data-dist > obviously im creating an include file from a directory. when the tar run= s, > it correctly adds all the files in the include file. but once that is > finished, for some reason tar then goes back and adds all the files that = are > in the /usr/local/www/data-dist directory, even the ones in the include > file. i was under the impression that the -I command would add ONLY the > files that are listed in the include. why is it adding those and then af= ter > finishing that, adding all the others? Why won't you just do it this way?? $ tar cvf /usr/local/backupScript/files/www-client-files.tar $( cat /usr/lo= cal/backupScript/include ) --=20 Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 =2E: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. --Fig2xvG2VGoz8o/s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHs81WVWU5RcjdGKIRAn85AKD5PZPXieeTCh2idfhjQR0ttWfiHACgsM2w 3/E8U9gIUlAjR1uf1Kc8l6s= =0wvR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Fig2xvG2VGoz8o/s--
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