RE: [Help-tar] Correct use of --directory

[Nick Lewis]

Sergey

Thanks for the explanation. I had incorrectly assumed that the wildcard
was passed to tar and was expanded there. 

Is there any way to use the --directory parameter with the wildcard?
Alternatively is there an option to include only the content of the
directory rather than the directory itself i.e. something like:

tar -cz --file=/tmp/ampbackups.factorydefault/configurations.tar.gz
--tar-bomb configurations

Best Regards
Nick 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Poznyakoff [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 13 May 2009 11:11
To: Nick Lewis
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Help-tar] Correct use of --directory

Nick Lewis <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> address@hidden factory]# ls
> configurations  factorydefault.tar.gz
> address@hidden factory]# ls configurations
> etc  tmp  usr  var
> address@hidden factory]# tar -cz
> --file=/tmp/ampbackups.factorydefault/configurations.tar.gz
> --directory=configurations *

Before executing this command, the shell first expands the asterisk and
gets:

 tar -cz \
  --file=/tmp/ampbackups.factorydefault/configurations.tar.gz \
  --directory=configurations configurations  factorydefault.tar.gz

Then it launches tar.  Now, tar changes to the directory
`configurations'
and begins archiving files from its command line, i.e. `configurations'
and
`factorydefault.tar.gz'.  Of course it does not find them and issues the
diagnostics you get.

Regards,
Sergey

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