I am trying to recreate the process used to create a tar file we use.

The tar file contains what appears to be a group of files filtered from all over the file system. I don't know if the original command used --exclude or --include or a combination of both or perhaps a file containing the paths.

I could easily use the existing tar as a template to grab the same files, but if --include or --exclude were used, I would probably miss some or include others that should not be in the tar.

Does the tar file include info I can use to recreate the original command?

CodePudding user response：

You can't. One tar archive can be created on many ways and produce the same result.

For example you can create tar with one command or you can create it with specific list of files and then update it adding new files, etc.