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lakshan

02-11-2010 11:17 PM

How to tar a list of files

Hi all,

I have some files located in /vol0/archives that has several files
Eg:- arch_00001.arc , arch_00002.arc, arch_00003.arc

I want to tar each of those files into separate tar ball by taking it garbing it from file name sequence,
Eg:- arch_00001.arc.tar.gz , arch_00002.arc.tar.gz, arch_00003.arc tar.gz

how do I define the tar command to go get those files and tar each file separately, As I mention above

Can some one help re this please

Lakshan

paulsm4

02-11-2010 11:21 PM

Something like this?

Code:

!/bin/sh



cd /vol0/archives

for i in *.arc; do

  echo "making tar of $i..."

  tar cvzf /archive_dir/${i}.tgz $i

done

echo "Done: `date`."

lakshan

02-11-2010 11:41 PM

thanks paulsm4, thanks a lot

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