[sclug] strip paths from file when tarring?

[Dickon Hood]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 23:05:49 +0000, Darren Davison wrote:
: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 21:47 +0000, John Stumbles wrote:

: > like this?

: > tar cjf mytar.tbz2 foo/ bar/; cd long/path/to/; tar cjf mytar.tbz2 \
: > logfile.log

: > not sure about the flags (cjf) - obviously you want to add the logfile
: > to the now-existing archive file (and I can't be bottomed to rtfm,
: > especially as I recall it's a $%&**! info file instead of a proper man
: > page :-()

: I think the append flag is 'A', but you can't append to a compressed
: archive, so I guess I have to do..

Ick.

: tar cf mytar.tar foo/ bar/
: cd long/path/to
: tar Af ~/mytar.tar logfile.log
: bzip2 ~/mytar.tar

If they're on the same filesystem, personally I'd probably end up doing
something reasonably icky as:

ln long/path/to/logfile.log .
tar cvf - foo bar logfile.log | bzip2 > my.tar.bz2
rm logfile.log

if I couldn't find a nicer way of doing it.

: It just seemed a bit unusually verbose, I assumed I was missing some
: simple option to drop path names when adding to an archive.

You possibly are.  OTOH, you can do wonders with LD_PRELOAD, you know :-)

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