create tar with multiple directories and file locations

Question

I have some scripts and files located in various locations like:

/etc/dir1
/var/www/html
/home/somedir

I want to make a tar file so that it copies files and folders with the location structure. When I untar to another location, all the files will be copied to their respective locations in the correct paths; same as where tar was made.

score 281 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 02 '17 at 03:20

281

You can just use

tar -cf myfile.tar /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir

also, you could use

tar -czf myfile.tar.gz /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir

This second example (note the z in the -czf parameter) will compress the tar file using g(z)ip.

edited Jul 02 '17 at 03:20

Logan

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answered May 01 '14 at 17:54

Jonathan

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 12 '19 at 09:24

5

This works for me small change by adding "change to directory DIR (C)" argument

tar -zcvf myfile.tar -C /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir

edited Sep 12 '19 at 09:24

Albin

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answered Sep 12 '19 at 05:20

rupalis

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create tar with multiple directories and file locations

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