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» Directories and its size
» Untar multiple files in a directory
» Using tar with other compression formats
» Finding Newer Files [OR How To Create A Patch File]
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» Untar multiple files in a directory
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» Finding Newer Files [OR How To Create A Patch File]
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If you want to select specifically the files to add to an archive you can pipe the output from find (or any command that gives a list of files) to cpio:
$ find ./dir/ | cpio -o --format=tar > archive.tar or $ find ./dir/ | cpio -o --format=tar -F test.tar
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