[kwlug-disc] tar --directory help please

[Steve Izma]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 10:33:42AM -0700, Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] tar --directory help please
> 
> There are 2 files I want to include:
> 
> # ll /etc/systemd/system/mailman*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman root  461 2025-05-31 07:00
> /etc/systemd/system/mailman3.service
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman root 1226 2025-06-04 06:35
> /etc/systemd/system/mailman3-web.service
> 
> 
> However... errors with or without quotes around the path to archive:
> 
> # tar -vcf ffs.tar --directory=/ etc/systemd/system/mailm*
> tar: etc/systemd/system/mailm*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Don't you need the --wildcards option for tar to interpret the
"*" properly?

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