creating tar from file listing

[mosstw]

I'm trying to creat a tar file from a .txt listing of files with full path/filename info.
Can't seem to to get correct syntax.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks. MOSSTW

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Can you show me what tar command did you use?

Example you can use:

tar -cvf demo.tar --files-from=demo.txt

Within demo.txt contain all the file you want to tar, full path. Make sure you have permission on the file/fodler as well.

regards,
feroz

 

[timsr]

If you are trying to create a tar file from a listing of files, the command is - tar cvfF <file> file.f - where the <file> is the destination file and the file.f is the text file containing the names of the files with full paths.

 

[mosstw]

Thanks dbase77 and timsr...
I'm trying the suggestions now.
The syntax I was trying to work from is as follows which came from another web discussion but the tar line appears to only want to write to tape. I could not figure a method to write to filename.tar

find / -mtime -1 \! -type d -print > /backup/daily
tar -cv -T /backup/daily -f /dev/rft0

Thanks again for the help.

 

[mosstw]

I guess I'm not having any success. Is it possible I'm working from a different tar util (I'm on Solaris 5.8)
Here's the responses I'm getting...

(I get the following error)
$tar -cvf demo.tar --files-from=demo.txt
tar: --files-from=demo.txt: No such file or directory

(In the following example, it actually tars the .txt file but not the individul files listed inside.)
$tar -cvfF demo.tar demo.txt
a demo.txt 1K

 

[sstilton]

If you have a list of files that you want created as a tar do the following:

ls > list
than type this command: tar -cvf nameoffile.tar -T list

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Im on solaris 8 as well. Here is the correct command.

tar -cvf demo.tar -I file.lst

Within the file.lst contain all the file/directory you want to insert.

Let us know how you getting on.

regards,
feroz

 

[heavyDman]

Hi

Try this:

tar cvf archivename `cat filename.txt`

Cheers

 

[mosstw]

Awesome!
The following syntax did the trick!
$tar -cvf demo2.tar -I demo.txt
a ./Unity/POSGetInfo/build/Makefile.solaris 6K
a ./Unity/POSGetInfo/idl/atPOSGetInfo.idl 8K

Not sure if Solaris has some unique properties cause so many attempts didn't fly. The -I vs -T was an issue. This is going to help considerably with day-to-day deployments.
Thanks Feroz -
TMoss

BTW- I tried the follow suggestion, here's the results.
$tar -cvf demo2.tar 'cat demo.txt'
tar: cat demo.txt: No such file or directory
Thanks HeavyDman & everyone else.