I need to create a new tar archive from the filtered output of the original. I thought something like this might work:
tar xvpf myarchive.tar --exclude=foo* | tar cvpf mynewarchive.tar
but that doesn't.
Any ideas?
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Almost there. That extracts to the filesystem. Adding -O or --to-stdout to the first tar and removing v (which would corrupt stdout) and p (doesn't make sense) should be sufficient.
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Ah, getting closer. The second command complains still: tar: "no files or directories specified". How do I specify that it should take stdin? – Frank Brenner Sep 27 '11 at 22:26
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I have come to the conclusion it cannot be done. – Mark Wagner Sep 27 '11 at 23:27