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| 9153.1 | None | RHETT::PARKER | | Thu Mar 13 1997 09:00 | 6 |
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None - the shell(s) expands all wildcards. What exactly are you trying
to do? May be able to offer more help if you tell us that...
Lee
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| 9153.2 | abc.*, abc*.def | HTSC12::MICKWIDLAM | Water addict, water man | Thu Mar 13 1997 10:19 | 7 |
| re .1
I would like to extract some files like abc.* or abc*.def. Is there any
generic way?
Regards,
Mickwid.
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| 9153.3 | | VAXCPU::michaud | Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker | Thu Mar 13 1997 10:44 | 16 |
| > I would like to extract some files like abc.* or abc*.def. Is there any
> generic way?
You'll have to do a "tar t" to get the list of files in the tar
file/tape and you can then use grep/egrep with regular expressions
for what you want. Ex.
% tar t >list
% tar x `egrep 'abc\..*|abc.*\.def$' list`
if the list of files you want to extract is too long that it
exceeds the max argv size:
% tar t >list
% egrep 'abc\..*|abc.*\.def$' list >extlist
% tar xR extlist
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| 9153.4 | I can't seem to make it work | RHETT::PARKER | | Thu Mar 13 1997 11:04 | 6 |
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Tha man page sort of implies you can do this, but I can't get it to
work. Maybe someone else can tell us if there is a way...
Lee
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| 9153.5 | Use pax. | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group | Thu Mar 13 1997 16:05 | 1 |
| See man page for details.
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| 9153.6 | find and tar with R option | SEAWLF::COLE | Digital NSIS, Greenbelt, Maryland | Mon Mar 17 1997 09:43 | 11 |
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Or use the find command to generate a list of files
and use the R option on tar to read this list:
find . -name "*.doc" -print > mylist
tar -c -R mylist -f outputfile
...larry
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| 9153.7 | | VAXCPU::michaud | Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker | Mon Mar 17 1997 11:15 | 8 |
| > Or use the find command to generate a list of files
> and use the R option on tar to read this list:
>
> find . -name "*.doc" -print > mylist
> tar -c -R mylist -f outputfile
reread .0 :-) the author wants to "extract", not "create"
a tar archive using wildcards...
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| 9153.8 | silly me ! | PRMS00::COLE | | Tue Mar 18 1997 09:21 | 2 |
| Silly me !
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| 9153.9 | does work, escape wildcards! | TUXEDO::CHUBB | | Wed Mar 19 1997 15:30 | 45 |
| This will work fine. You just must escape the wildcards on the
extraction. Also be aware that if you create the tar file using . (or
some other directory) the filenames within won't be simple.
Example:
% cat | tee 1file 2file 3file > foo # just to make several files
Just testing.
% ls
1file 2file 3file foo
% cat ?file
Just testing.
Just testing.
Just testing.
% wc -l !$
1 1file
1 2file
1 3file
3 total
% cat foo
Just testing.
% tar cvf ../test.tar *
a 1file 1 Blocks
a 2file 1 Blocks
a 3file 1 Blocks
a foo 1 Blocks
% ls
1file 2file 3file foo
% rm *
% tar tvf ../test.tar
blocksize: 20
-rw-rw-r-- 1288/0 14 Mar 19 15:23:02 1997 1file
-rw-rw-r-- 1288/0 14 Mar 19 15:23:02 1997 2file
-rw-rw-r-- 1288/0 14 Mar 19 15:23:02 1997 3file
-rw-rw-r-- 1288/0 14 Mar 19 15:23:02 1997 foo
% tar xvf ../test.tar \?file
blocksize: 20
x 1file, 14 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x 2file, 14 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x 3file, 14 bytes, 1 tape blocks
%
Notice that 'foo' wasn't extracted.
-- brandon
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