[Wolves] Tar without directory structure

[Tom Mortimer-Jones]

Wayne Morris wrote:
> I'm using tar in a cron job to archive security cam pics
> but when I use tar -cf /home/test/campics/images.tar 
> /home/test/campics/*.jpeg
> I get images correctly tarred, but nested inside folders corresponding 
> to the path.
> How do i get just the images directly inside images.tar without the 
> directory structure?
Here is a little script that will do that for you:

#!/bin/bash

tarfile=/home/test/campics/images.tar
directory=/home/test/campics/
regex=*.jpeg

cd $directory

for file in `ls $regex`
do
tar rf $tarfile $file
done

Tom.