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

[Live user]

On 10/11/2012 4:02, Alex Antener wrote:
> 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.
>
> This works for me:
> > tar czf foobar.tar.gz *.sql
> as well as
> > tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz foobar.sql
> but the following command exits with an error:
> > tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz *.sql
> > tar: *.sql: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> ... is it me or is it GNU tar?

When creating or updating tar archives, -C stands for the new directory 
where to work with the tar archive, but files are still referred from 
current dir, so try this:

tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz ~/foobar/*.sql

For extracting, you don't need such, and star behaves the same.
The problem is that the files are not stored relative, where should be
$ tar -tf foobar.tar.gz
a.sql
b.sql

It is
home/user/foobar/a.sql
home/user/foobar/b.sql