bash scripting and tar

pengStudent · 11-17-2003, 06:05 PM

Hi, I was wondering if the following is possible, I have a regular text file that contains paths to directories:

ex.
/home/user/dir1/file1
/home/user/dir1/dir2/file2
/home/user/dir8/file3

Thats how the text file looks and I want to be able to pass them to tar so it creates an archive with full paths. Sound possible with shell script, or should I use perl or python? Thanks for the help.

leonscape · 11-17-2003, 06:33 PM

This should be very straight forward with a script. Heres a manual for bash scripting. Pay attention too arrays, and string processing. I'd knock one up for you, but I'm a little rusty and would probably take as long to work it out

pengStudent · 11-17-2003, 07:09 PM

Thanks, just wanted to make sure. Im new to linux so I wasnt sure. Thanks.