13 Sep
1999
13 Sep
'99
12:59 p.m.
At 08:12 PM 9/13/99 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Essential info: Problem is, I have directories that I want backed up, but
with subdirectories that I *don't* want backed up; yet when I feed the list
of dir's to tar, it recursively backs up the dir's anyway.
As always with Unix, there's eight ways to skin the cat, and sixteen
if you're god-like enough to write C programs with 'cat'.
I think the easy way would be to write your Perl or shell script
that assembles the list of files to backup, with absolute or relative
paths as needed, and write those filenames to a file, then tell
'tar' to read its names from that text file instead of trying to trick
its recursion into doing the right thing.
This makes the problem more chunkable and more easily debugged, too.
- John