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Annihilannic
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tar on HP-UX is unbelievably primitive.
Luckily the more featureful /usr/bin/pax is usually also found on the system; and you can use something like this:
The -s option is used to make search-and-replace modifications to filenames as they are archived; if the resulting filename is an empty string the file is not archived at all. It's a bit cumbersome but it works.
Failing that I would personally choose a combination of find and cpio. Let me know if you want details on that solution.
Annihilannic.
Luckily the more featureful /usr/bin/pax is usually also found on the system; and you can use something like this:
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pax -w -s '/.*\.idx$//' -s '/.*\.abc$//' -f /path/to/q.tar qThe -s option is used to make search-and-replace modifications to filenames as they are archived; if the resulting filename is an empty string the file is not archived at all. It's a bit cumbersome but it works.
Failing that I would personally choose a combination of find and cpio. Let me know if you want details on that solution.
Annihilannic.
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