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Frank Brenner
Asked: 2011-09-28 13:38:23 +0800 CST

Tar: create new archive from filtered archive

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I need to create a new tar archive from the filtered output of the original. I thought something like this might work:

tar xvpf myarchive.tar --exclude=foo* | tar cvpf mynewarchive.tar

but that doesn't.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

linux unix tar

1 Answers

  1. Almost there. That extracts to the filesystem. Adding -O or --to-stdout to the first tar and removing v (which would corrupt stdout) and p (doesn't make sense) should be sufficient.

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