[SOLVED] how can I only tar file and not the directories in linux

kkhalil · 10-15-2018, 01:46 PM

how can I only tar files and not the directories in linux

teckk · 10-15-2018, 02:13 PM

Welcome to LQ
Look at:
man tar
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html
https://www.tecmint.com/18-tar-comma...ples-in-linux/

jefro · 10-15-2018, 02:24 PM

Post your example of the command that you are trying to use. I suspect it will not be a file or set of files.

kkhalil · 10-15-2018, 02:51 PM

here is what I was able to do:
[find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar cvf onlyFiles_No_Dirs.tar]

Hopefully I tagged my command as code.

Also, I must give credit to where I was able to find this command originally, before my minor tweak: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...no-directories

l0f4r0 · 10-16-2018, 02:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkhalil

here is what I was able to do:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar cvf onlyFiles_No_Dirs.tar

It works for me. Is your problem resolved then? If so, please mark your thread as [SOLVED] (see howto in my sig).
PS: please use [CODE] tag for your commands/output/code (see my sig as well).