tar几个文件保存目录树

Question

Ive been looking at this for hours, and cant find a way to tar several files with directory structure ( tree )

Example:

I have files in:

1. /home/user/somefolder/file.txt
2. /home/user/somefolder/file2.txt
3. /home/user/somefolder/file3.txt
4. /home/user/somefolder/somefolder2/file2.txt
5. /home/user/somefolder/somefolder3/file3.txt

now i want to take files 1+4 and tar it.

tar cvzf file.tar.gz /home/user/somefolder/file.txt /home/user/somefolder/somefolder/file2.txt

but it takes those files and tar it into one file without keeping the second some folder while i want to tar file to look like this: tarfile

somefolder
|-- file.txt
|-- somefolder2
    |-- file2.txt

Answer 1

Try this tar:

tar -cvz -f file.tar.gz -C /home/user/somefolder/ file.txt file2.txt file3.txt \
                        -C /home/user/somefolder/somefolder2/ file2.txt file3.txt

Answer 2

Well, silly me

When using full path from a remote directory tar saves the entire tree of the folders.

so there isnt really any issue :) sorry