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Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

ajk_5 — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:20:24 GMT

Dear all,

I want to use tar extracting data from tape that exclude some directories. Could you tell me how I can do it?
Thanks very much.

Best Regards
Ajk

Re: Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

V.Tamilvanan — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:25:40 GMT

Hi,
There is no option in tar to exclude selected directories.
You can do it on the other way by selecting whatever the directories to be extracted.
You first create a list of files archived and extract the directories whatever u required from the list.

1. #tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m >logfile

2.#tar -xvf /dev/rmt/1m /usr1 /usr2

HTH

Re: Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:26:51 GMT

Hi,

believe you can use pax,

# pax -pe -rvf /tarfile.tar -s '/^\///' /dir1 /dir2

Look at the man page of pax.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

Mad_1 — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:39:55 GMT

Try the tar download from the "Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX" from below link.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

Re: Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

Ravi_8 — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:42:11 GMT

Hi,

you can do this using GNU tar, look at the URL given by Mad

Re: Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

Chris Vail — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:32:14 GMT

There's no way to do this using tar exactly. What you can do is extract the filenames into a text file, then edit the text file and delete out the files you don't want. Then you can use that text file as an argument to another tar command:
tar tvf /dev/rmt/0>/tmp/tarnames
vi /tmp/tarnames
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 `cat /tmp/tarnames`

Other tar variants can do this as you want it to: Backup Edge, a 3rd party product, is one of them.

Chris