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Re: making a tar file?
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:58:11 -0400
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Donna Garverick,
>
> i'd like to make a tarball for a select (but listfile-able)
> collection of files.  however, tar is ignoring me (how
> rude!) and starts to store the entire group/directory.

donna,
  Have you considered using the shell?

:xeq sh.hpbin.sys '-c "tar -cvf ./tartest ./DSG*"'

seems to do what you're wanting.

Ted
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