taking tar back up of only the directory structure
Hi
can any bod tell me how to taking a tar back up of only the directory structure Regards Asanka |
do you mean you already compress several directory together then you want to uncompress just one directory from what you already backup ?
if yes do this way to view what inside your backup add the "t" ---------------------------view only----------------- [rou@nc temp]$ ls liquid-0.9.7.tar.bz2 [rou@nc temp]$ tar tfvj liquid-0.9.7.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x sarath/users 0 2004-07-09 02:55:10 liquid-0.9.7/ drwxr-xr-x sarath/users 0 2004-07-09 02:49:57 liquid-0.9.7/po/ -rw-r--r-- sarath/users 15 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/po/Makefile.am -rw-r--r-- sarath/users 0 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/TODO -rw-r--r-- sarath/users 2565 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/liquid.kdevelop drwxr-xr-x sarath/users 0 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/admin/ drwxr-xr-x sarath/users 0 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/ -rw-r--r-- sarath/users 18 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/Tag -rw-r--r-- sarath/users 45 2004-07-07 02:59:24 liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/Root ......... ............ ----------------end------------ ------extract folder you need eg. admin-------------- [rou@nc temp]$ tar xfvj liquid-0.9.7.tar.bz2 liquid-0.9.7/admin/ liquid-0.9.7/admin/ liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/ liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/Tag liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/Root liquid-0.9.7/admin/CVS/Repository .... ..... -----------------end------------------------ ------------result------------ [rou@nc temp]$ ls liquid-0.9.7 liquid-0.9.7.tar.bz2 [rou@nc temp]$ ls liquid-0.9.7 admin [rou@nc temp]$ ---------------- cheers |
Hi,
If you want to tar a directory structure without the actual files: tar cf dirstructure.tar --no-recursion --files-from <( find . -type) Hope this helps. |
Hay Thank you guys
touters what druuna says is what I want just to take the empty directory structure in to a tar back up Thanks guys Regards Asanka |
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