topic Re: TAR without particular extentions in Operating System - Linux

TAR without particular extentions

priyarajan — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:11:03 GMT

hi team ,

I just want to know is it possible to do a tar archive without particular extention , also let me know is it common to all Os.

Thanks

Re: TAR without particular extentions

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:21:13 GMT

You can use shell nesting or shell substitution, like this:

tar cvf filename `find . -type f ! -name "*.extention"`

tar cvf filename $(find . -type f ! -name "*.extention")

Re: TAR without particular extentions

Jess Long — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:59:48 GMT

If I understand the question, you want to archive a group of files, excluding those of a particular extension, right?

If so, use

tar cvf *.* exclude "*.extension"

This will archive all files except the ones with *.extension.

Hope this helps.

Re: TAR without particular extentions

Peter Godron — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:31:14 GMT

Hi,
yes you can create a tarfile with any name, however most people name their files #
.tar, so you can identify it as a tar file, similar to .gz extension.

Tar files are portable across platforms, as long as the tar executable is based on the the same algorithm.

Re: TAR without particular extentions

Vipulinux — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:53:59 GMT

Hello

Use the following command to ctreate an archieve:

tar cvf your_file output_file

Cheers

Re: TAR without particular extentions

Peter Godron — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:59:25 GMT

Hi,
could you please review the answers and feed back whether your problem is resolved.

Re: TAR without particular extentions

priyarajan — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:26 GMT

Thanks Irvan ferreira

Your reply is exactly solved my problem.

Thanks alot again