Tar archive problems.

[Nathan Aubrey]

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?



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Nathan Aubrey
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