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I would like to have a bash function that lets me create tar.xz archives. I have the following in my bash now:
mktar() { tar cf "${1%%/}.tar" "${1%%/}/"; }
mktgz() { tar czf "${1%%/}.tar.gz" "${1%%/}/"; }
mktbz() { tar cjf "${1%%/}.tar.bz2" "${1%%/}/"; }
Any advice would be appreciated.
Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-09-06 11:10:39)
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archive () {
FILE=$1
shift
case $FILE in
*.tar.bz2) tar -cjf $FILE $* ;;
*.tar.gz) tar -czf $FILE $* ;;
*.tar.lzma) tar --lzma -cf $FILE $* ;;
*.tar.xz) tar --xz -cf $FILE $* ;;
*.tgz) tar -czf $FILE $* ;;
*.zip) zip $FILE $* ;;
*.rar) rar $FILE $* ;;
esac
}
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wintervenom, how do I use that function, an example please
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orphius1970 should learn some shell scripting.
$FILE is obviously the archive name and is $1 the first argument.
$* would be the rest of the arguments (only so after the shift command.
So, archive archive_name list of files to be archived.
Example: archive stuff.tar.gz stuff/
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thank you. now I understand.
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