[sclug] strip paths from file when tarring?

[John Stumbles]

David Given wrote:

> (tar cf - foo/ bar/ && (cd long/path/to/ && tar cf - logfile.log)) \
>   | bzip2 -9vc > mytar.tar.bz2

oh, beg your pardon: so bzip2 _can_ compress from stdin ...


> (Incidentally, as a matter of shell scripting style: if you use && to 
> seperate commands instead of ; then if one command fails the whole thing 
> will stop. e.g.:
> 
> cd / ; cd this/directory/doesnt/exist ; rm -rf .
> 
> ...will do Bad Things. Using && will Not Do Bad Things.

point taken :-)



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