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y4mz

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Registered: 2007-06-16

Posts: 16

tar recursion problem

I'm trying to combine the --no-recursion and --recursion tar options like it says here: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/ … curse.html

The --no-recursion and --recursion options apply to later options and operands, and can be overridden by later occurrences of --no-recursion and --recursion. For example:

     $ tar -cf jams.tar --no-recursion grape --recursion grape/concord

creates an archive with one entry for grape, and the recursive contents of grape/concord, but no entries under grape other than grape/concord.

...but it doesn't seem to work. If I try the example, the contents of grape are archived, and the contents of grape/concord are archived twice. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Purch

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From: Finland

Registered: 2006-02-23

Posts: 229

Re: tar recursion problem

$ tar -cf jams.tar grape/concord/*

y4mz

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Registered: 2007-06-16

Posts: 16

Re: tar recursion problem

Thanks, but that doesn't store the 'grape' and 'grape/concord' directories individually, so their owner/group/permissions are not stored, which is what I want.

But I figured out a way that works:  tar -cf jams.tar --no-recursion grape ; tar -rf jams.tar grape/concord

I can't see why the manual example doesn't work though.

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: tar recursion problem

Does it work as you want if you specify the recursion before the no-recursion option?

y4mz

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Registered: 2007-06-16

Posts: 16

Re: tar recursion problem

with:  tar -cf jams.tar --recursion grape/concord --no-recursion grape

only the 'grape' and 'grape/concord' directories are stored, nothing else.