Re: Tar archive problems.

Nathan wrote:
>
> I have a set of files that are lists of files in my filesystem. I run backups
> against these scripts doing something like this...
>
> #!/bin/bash
> copy_contents() {
> (tar -cpf - "$i" | tar -f - -xpC /tmp/filearchive.1)
> }
>

> while read i ; do
>       if ! [ -d "$i" -a -e "$i" ]; then
>          copy_contents 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>       fi
>       done < file_list.1

>
> It works great, but I have several empty directories that are not backed up,
> but I would like them to be backed up as files go in them temporarily, but I
> have to manually add those empty directories. How can I do the above but
> include the empty directories?

I'd use:

while read i
do
    cp -ax "$i" /tmp/filearchive.1
done < file_list.1

You may not want the -x option to cp.

-Dale
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