What is the Linux shell equivalent of this Windows shell batch file command?
tar czf b.tgz --exclude="dontwant.tgz" @a.tgz
What I need to achieve:
a.tgz has many files including dontwant.tgz.b.tgz such that it has all files in a.tgz except dontwant.tgz.
Check your Linux distro if there is a bsdtar (just type it into a terminal) and use this instead of tar. First one is FreeBSD (and therefore "macOS") Tar with your required "@" option, second one GNU Tar without it. My current system (Slackware based) has both.
Keep in mind that "tar" is a file format that can be handled by different programs with different features (though it started out some decades ago in UNIX as single program).
@a.tgzhas an interesting meaning! I wouldn't have thought this to be a functionality of any shell. Wow! – Marcus Müller Dec 17 '21 at 17:09man tarandinfo tar. – waltinator Dec 17 '21 at 20:57@tarball– Chris Davies Dec 17 '21 at 21:20taryou're using etc. – polemon Dec 26 '21 at 15:33