I have the following I want to do:
find . -maxdepth 6 \( -name \*.tar.gz -o -name bediskmodel -o -name src -o -name ciao -o -name heasoft -o -name firefly -o -name starlink -o -name Chandra \) -prune -o -print | tar cvf somefile.tar --files-from=-
I.e., exclude a whole lot of stuff, only look to six subdirectories depth, and then once pruning is done, 'tar' up the rest.
It is not hard. The bit before the pipe (|) works 100%. If I exclude the 'tar', then I get what I'm after (to the screen). But once I include the pipe, and the tar, it tars everything, including all the stuff I've just excluded in the 'find'.
I've tried a number of different iterations:
-print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf somefile.tar
-print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf somefile.tar --null --files-from=-
-print0 | tar cvf somefile.tar --null -T -
So what am I doing wrong? I've done this before; but now it's just giving me grey hairs.