tar question

[Kevin J. Cummings]

chloe K wrote:
> Hi
> I have number of selected files to backup and it is also in different 
> folders
> How can I make it easy?

Look at the -T or the --files-from option to tar.  You can put all of 
the filenames in a single file and instruct to archive just the files 
listed in that one file.  Is this what you want?

> eg:
> tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz from selected file or tar zcvf 
> select-file.tar.gz (from selected files in file.txt)?

tar zcvfT selected-file.tar.gx files.txt

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