Can I tar a directory structure....

shelby · 02-19-2003, 12:08 PM

Can I tar a directory structure? Is it posssible to tar a directory structure. I dont need the data inside the directories. These are NFS and Samba shares and just want to be able to recreate the mount points with min fuss. Thanks

Ztyx · 02-19-2003, 12:24 PM

shelby · 02-19-2003, 12:35 PM

Mine sharing the syntax with me? Thanks

Ztyx · 02-19-2003, 12:42 PM

To create a tar file containing the directory structure:
tar -cl /path/to/directory > /path/to/my/newly/created/tar/file.tar

Quote:

Quote from "man tar":
-l, --one-file-system
stay in local file system when creating an archive

fancypiper · 02-19-2003, 12:49 PM

Telling tar Which Files to Exclude or Include

MasterC · 02-19-2003, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shelby
Mine sharing the syntax with me? Thanks

Dark ninja secrets you seek...

nakkaya · 02-19-2003, 09:08 PM

doesnt tar -cf do the same job

MasterC · 02-19-2003, 09:14 PM

The difference being this person doesn't want files in the directories. So, tarring up the directory would work, but isn't what they are looking for. They want structure, not files

Cool

Mik · 02-20-2003, 08:10 AM

Well I don't think there is any specific switch for tar which will do this, at least I couldn't find any. Here is how I would do something like what you where looking for. It's just an example of the commands I used, you might want to make a script out of it if you want to do it more often.

Code:

$ mkdir /tmp/dirstruct
$ cd /tmp/dirstruct
$ find /usr/include -type d | sed -e 's#/usr/include/##' | xargs mkdir
$ tar czvf dirstruct.tar.gz *
$ mkdir /tmp/newdirstruct
$ cd /tmp/newdirstruct
$ tar xzvf ../dirstruct/dirstruct.tar.gz

The find command searches for only directories. The sed command then strips off the leading path. You have to make sure that in the sed command the trailing / is present otherwise it will try to make the directory structure in the root which isn't what you want. The xargs command passes the directories to the mkdir command so it can create each directory in the current directory.
Well hope that helps get you closer to the solution to your problem.

shelby · 02-20-2003, 09:17 AM

Thanks I will give it a shot.