Re: GNU Tar on Windows XP

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:44:37 -0500

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Gadrin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes it does read from the stdin but the problem is that it seems to
> be ignoring the fact I only want folders.

You can use the --no-recursion option to tell tar to include only the
files (or in this case, directories) explicitly named in the file
list, and not to include the contents of those directories.

paul