Re: [Bug-tar] Wildcard in combination of "-C" option

[Live user]

On 10/11/2012 12:18, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Alex Antener <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > I don't know if this is worth a bug report, but it looks like GNU tar
> > does not accept wildcards in combination of the -C option.
>
> Wildcards are expanded by shell, not by tar.  Tar reats all its
> non-optional arguments as file names.  When you call it like this:
>
> > > tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz *.sql
>
> the shell tries to find files matching *.sql and replaces it with
> their names.  Since there are no matching files in the cwd, it leaves
> the argument as is and then invokes tar.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey

Try this:

tar -C  ~/foobar -cvf archive.tar `ls ~/foobar | grep '.sql$'`