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I have some directories with some files
dir_archive/somedir1
dir_archive/somedir2
dir_archive/somedir3
dir_archive/mydir
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
dir_archive/mydir/many_other_directories...
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
I want create tar(gz) archive dir_archive.tar.gz with all files and directories exclude
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
dir_archive/mydir/many_other_directories...
but include
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
I dont want use --exclude for each directory
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1 --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2 --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
I try use --add-file, but it doesn't work:
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir --add-file=dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir dir_archive
Exists some simple way? Thanks
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For example, to create an archive with all the contents of the directory 'src' except for files whose names end in '.o', use the command ' tar -cf src. tar --exclude='*.o' src '. You may give multiple ' --exclude ' options. Causes tar to ignore files that match the patterns listed in file .
To exclude multiple directories, OR them between parentheses. And, to exclude directories with a specific name at any level, use the -name primary instead of -path .
We can exclude directories by using the help of “path“, “prune“, “o” and “print” switches with find command. The directory “bit” will be excluded from the find search!
Order matters:
$ mkdir -p dir_archive/{somedir{1..3},mydir/{excludedir{1..3},otherone,my_archive_dir}}
$ touch dir_archive/{somedir{1..3},mydir/{excludedir{1..3},otherone,my_archive_dir}}/dir_file.txt
$ tar cvzf dir_archive.tar.gz dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir* --exclude "dir_archive/mydir/*" dir_archive
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir/
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir/dir_file.txt
dir_archive/
dir_archive/mydir/
dir_archive/somedir2/
dir_archive/somedir2/dir_file.txt
dir_archive/somedir1/
dir_archive/somedir1/dir_file.txt
dir_archive/somedir3/
dir_archive/somedir3/dir_file.txt
What this is doing in essence is being more explicit up front, then applying the exclude to the parent directory only.
Stolen shamelessly from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/417707/420501
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One way would be first excluding the mydir and then appending the my_archive_dir
tar cvf dir_archive.tar --exclude=dir_archive/mydir dir_archive
tar rvf dir_archive.tar dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
gzip dir_archive.tar
Unfortunately appending doesn't work with zipped archives.
The --exclude option takes a pattern as argument, so if the names of the dirs to be excluded are similar, you can avoid them and still include the archive dir
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/exclude* dir_archive
It is also possible to create a file with names of all the files that you want included and give that list to tar with option -T or --files-from (or in similar fashion list the files to be excluded and give the list with option -X).
filelist.txt: dir_archive dir_archive/temp1 dir_archive/mydir dir_archive/mydir/temp2 dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir/temp7
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --no-recursion --files-from filelist.txt
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