HOWTO: Create a Tar Archive From a File List
I had a list of files that someone requested. I wanted to put them in a tar archive, but the tar on the box doesn’t have an option to add a list of files. Huh. Well, this is quick and dirty, and will choke if you have any space in the filenames, but it met my purposes:
[root /root]# cat manifest.txt /usr/bin/top /usr/bin/slocate /bin/login /bin/xlogin /bin/ls /usr/bin/find /usr/bin/dir /usr/sbin/lsof /usr/bin/md5sum /sbin/syslogd /usr/bin/pstree [root /root]# tar cfvz forhans.tar.gz `cat manifest.txt` tar: Removing leading `/' from member names bin/ps sbin/ifconfig bin/netstat usr/bin/top usr/bin/slocate bin/login tar: /bin/xlogin: Cannot stat: No such file or directory bin/ls usr/bin/find usr/bin/dir tar: /usr/sbin/lsof: Cannot stat: No such file or directory usr/bin/md5sum sbin/syslogd usr/bin/pstreetar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [root /root]# tar tfvz forhans.tar.gz -r-xr-xr-x root/root 60080 2000-03-07 12:03:26 bin/ps -rwxr-xr-x root/root 49488 2000-06-13 20:14:25 sbin/ifconfig -rwxr-xr-x root/root 80632 2000-06-13 20:14:25 bin/netstat -r-xr-xr-x root/root 34896 2000-03-07 12:03:26 usr/bin/top -rwxr-sr-x root/slocate 27052 2003-12-24 05:21:35 usr/bin/slocate -rwxr-xr-x root/root 21672 2002-07-30 10:14:02 bin/login -rwxr-xr-x root/root 47052 2003-12-27 06:00:42 bin/ls -rwxr-xr-x root/root 54544 2000-02-02 15:43:28 usr/bin/find -rwxr-xr-x root/root 47052 2003-12-27 06:00:42 usr/bin/dir -rwxr-xr-x root/root 14844 2000-02-07 07:50:27 usr/bin/md5sum -rwxr-xr-x root/root 27112 2000-09-26 21:03:21 sbin/syslogd -rwxr-xr-x root/root 11376 2000-02-04 22:03:22 usr/bin/pstree
