Tar

[Alan Horn]

>On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:28, Robert Nichols wrote:

>>
>> If you're building a list of things to include in a tar archive,
>> never include a directory name unless you really want *everything*
>> below that directory.  There is no way to include just a directory
>> name in a tar archive without having tar recurse into that directory.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Nichols         rnichols at interaccess.com
>>
>>

Not strictly true, and probably depends on your version of tar to some
extent.. however :

slick: {6} tar --norecurse -cvf foo.tar foo
foo/
slick: {7} ls foo
LICENSE.txt  README.txt   WebServer    setup        setup.inf

Only added the directory, not the contents or subdirectories.

Cheers,

Al