At Wednesday, 25 July 2001, "Jane Shaw" <jane_shaw00 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>hi gang,
>Quick question:>
>is there a way to create an archive of a list of directories(including
sub
>dirs etc.)which are contained within a file. As I am getting this for
>someone I am trying to do it without having to go down the heady
road of
>shell scripts so if anyone knows a one line command that can do
this please
>give me a shout
Assuming your tar behaves in an approximately sane manner when doing
verbose listing, try
tar tvf foo.tar | grep "^d" | cut -c55-
If your tar file has slightly insane output, you may need to adjust
the 55.
Waider.
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