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How do I create a tar file in alphabetical order?

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Mar 15, 202610191 views
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I want to create a tar file where all of the directories and files are processed in alphabetical order. This is for the entire directory hierarchy that's being tarred up, so it would start by processing the first directory alphabetically, and then sub-directories in there alphabetically, etc. I loo…

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Slartibartfast is on the right track, but tar's default behaviour is to descend into directories, so you may get more than one copy of the same file included in the generated tar file. You can check by doing The workaround is to include the --no-rec…

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