Pipe Output of ls -lR into a tar archive

[Ed K.]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:23, Ed K. wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>> I need help,
>>>
>>> 	EIther google isn't finding the stuffs or my search terms are too
>>> muddled.
>>>
>>> I just want to create a tar archive from a directory file listing.
>>>
>>> something like
>>>
>>> ls -laR ~/the/dir/to/list | tar -cvf - /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz
>>>
>>> I can't seem to find the correct syntax
>>
>> I think you are looking for something like:
>>
>> find ~/the/dir/to/list -type f | tar -cvf /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz -T -
>
> This didn't work either.  End up with the same problem as Alexander's suggestion.
>
> I only want the directory listing. I do not want to tar up the files too
>

hum, then try:

find ~/the/dir/to/list -type d | tar -cvf /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz -T - --no-recursion

ed

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