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Creating tar files without including the directories

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1932 / 3 Years ago, mon, may 24, 2021, 6:24:55

I am fairly new using tar having used zip files in the past.

I want to just create the tar file without the directories being included.

I went here, but found it a bit confusing.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/tar-archive-without-directory-structure

# Backup crontab

crontab -l > /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.txt

tar -cvf /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.tar /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.txt

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answered 3 Years ago uxuriousrnal · Accepted Answer

With GNU tar you can use the -C option to change directory partway through the command. Filenames are still recorded relative to the current directory, so it means so you can do this:

tar -cvf /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.tar -C /home/andy/bin crontab_backup.txt

and if you wanted to collect two files from different directories, you could do this:

tar -cvf /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.tar -C /home/andy/bin crontab_backup.txt -C /home/andy other_file.txt