RE: Archive extraction issues

Thanks for your reply. I'll have a go.

What I want to do is extract backup tar file, while not extracting the member tar files.

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: 15 October 2007 15:28
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: Archive extraction issues

See this link (at the bottom). It explains how to do what I believe you are looking for (or at least gets you close). http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/20_08.html

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To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Archive extraction issues

I'm trying to use tar to (sort of) make an incremental backup of a directory which contains subdirectories and a couple of other tar archives:
tar -cvf incremental.tar --newer-mtime "11 Oct 2007" *  

This works the way I want it to, but I've noticed that when I later extract the incremental.tar file (which contains other tar archives) then in that process it also extracts the other tar archives it contains.  

Is there a way of getting tar to NOT extract the member archives? I've read the man pages and googled on this issue but can't get it to work.  

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