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I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar. Let's call it mylist.txt
It contains:
/path1/path2/file1.txt /path1/path2/file3.txt ... /path1/path2/file10.txt What I want to do is to archive this file into a tarball but excluding /path1/path2/. Currently by doing this:
tar -cvf allfiles.tar -T mylist.txt preserves the path after unarchiving.
I tried this but won't work too:
tar -cvf -C /path1/path2 allfiles.tar -T mylist.txt It archives all the files in /path1/path2 even those which are not in mylist.txt
Is there a way to do it?
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To create a tar archive, use the -c option followed by -f and the name of the archive. You can create archives from the contents of one or more directories or files. By default, directories are archived recursively unless --no-recursion option is specified.
Use -t switch with tar command to list content of a archive. tar file without actually extracting. You can see that output is pretty similar to the result of ls -l command.
Simply right-click the item you want to compress, mouseover compress, and choose tar. gz. You can also right-click a tar. gz file, mouseover extract, and select an option to unpack the archive.
In your "Extraction phase" you can use the strip-components flag like
tar xvf tarname.tar --strip-components=n which will remove the first n leading components of the file name. Although if you have different file-path-components this will not work for all cases.
If you want to do it while archiving, only one thing comes to mind, and I will share
INPUT: list of files + full paths
1) for each line, split the path out of the filename
2) execute cd to that path and tar on that filename
3) repeat for each line
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