Get list of filenames from file and fetch and tar the files 1

[milage]

Hi,

I'm kinda new to shell scripts.

I have a file which lists a series of filenames. I need to write a script which gets the list of these filenames from the file, and then tars them up maintaining the directory structure.

Cheers

Rob

 

[dickiebird]

If your list of files are already inclusive of the path
ie
/u/fred/abcd
/u/bert/fghi
/u/joe/hjkl
etc
then :
tar -cvf tarfilename `cat filelist`

HTH ;-) Dickie Bird

Honi soit qui mal y pense

 

[milage]

Hi,

Cheers for that. However, what can I do if they aren't in the path.

sample file contains:

directory1/directory2/filename
directory2/directory3/filename
directory3/filename

and these are not in the root or the path.

So, what I need to do is to add the rest of the path to each filenames which is an environment variable eg $A_PATH


$A_PATH/directory1/directory2/filename
$A_PATH/directory2/directory3/filename
$A_PATH/directory3/filename

and thhen tar up all the files into one lovely archive.

Hope this is possible!

Rob

 

[danielhozac]

Something like this should do it

ORIG_PATH=`pwd`
cd $A_PATH
tar -cvf tarfilename `cat $ORIG_PATH/filelist`
cd $ORIG_PATH

//Daniel

 

[toolkit]

Another alternative is to use the -C option:

tar -cvf <tarfilename> -C $A_PATH `cat filelist`

Cheers, Neil