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Bastien974
Asked: 2011-11-05 11:41:02 +0800 CST

Use wildcard in tar with -T option

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I have a backup script that has this syntax "tar -czvf backup.tar.gz -T filelist" In this filelist, I'm listing folder to backup, but I also need to backup every file that has a given extension like "*.jpeg"

The file name are changing everyday, that's why I need to use a wildcard but it's not accepted in a file list.

Is there a workaround to make this work ?

Thanks !

wildcard tar

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The easiest solution I found is : tar -czvf backup.tar.gz $(cat filelist)

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  2. Have you try using --wildcards ? 

     tar -xf foo.tar -v --wildcards '*.c'

    http://www.gnu.org/s/tar/manual/html_section/wildcards.html

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  3. Create a filelist.template that contains the static folders to always backup and then copy it to filelist each time and add in all the .jpeg files. Something like:

    cp filelist.template filelist
ls *.jpeg >> filelist
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz -T filelist

    you could also use a find command instead of ls if you need *.jpeg from a variety of locations.

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