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

[Live user]

On 10/11/2012 18:09, Alex Antener wrote:
> I thought the option -C is meant to be used to exclude the folder path in the 
> archive.

The -C option is to change the working dir of tar, but not of the shell 
(that is done with cd). When extracting, the shell's working dir is not 
involved, but does when you compress because the files/folders to be 
compressed are provided externally.

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


You can replace ~/foobar by a variable if you want.