I have some directories with some files
dir_archive/somedir1
dir_archive/somedir2
dir_archive/somedir3
dir_archive/mydir
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
dir_archive/mydir/many_other_directories...
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
I want create tar(gz) archive dir_archive.tar.gz with all files and directories exclude
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2
dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
dir_archive/mydir/many_other_directories...
but include
dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
I dont want use --exclude for each directory
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir1 --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir2 --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/excludedir3
I try use --add-file, but it doesn't work:
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir --add-file=dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir dir_archive
Exists some simple way? Thanks
One way would be first excluding the mydir and then appending the my_archive_dir
tar cvf dir_archive.tar --exclude=dir_archive/mydir dir_archive
tar rvf dir_archive.tar dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir
gzip dir_archive.tar
Unfortunately appending doesn't work with zipped archives.
The --exclude option takes a pattern as argument, so if the names of the dirs to be excluded are similar, you can avoid them and still include the archive dir
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --exclude=dir_archive/mydir/exclude* dir_archive
It is also possible to create a file with names of all the files that you want included and give that list to tar with option -T or --files-from (or in similar fashion list the files to be excluded and give the list with option -X).
filelist.txt: dir_archive dir_archive/temp1 dir_archive/mydir dir_archive/mydir/temp2 dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir dir_archive/mydir/my_archive_dir/temp7
tar cvfz dir_archive.tar.gz --no-recursion --files-from filelist.txt