Joachim Werner wrote:

Hi!

I am working on internationalizing a Zope 2.4.1 instance with ZBabel and providing a set of patches for Zope 2.4.1. My idea was that things would become much easier if I had a tarball that just contains all *.dtml files and the folder structure for them, so I can distribute the tarball as a patch that can be applied to a plain 2.4.1 instance.

Do we have any Unix/Linux/GNU experts on the list who know how to write that as a shell command? I am sure that with tar and grep and some pipes or so it is possible, I am just too dumb to find out the right syntax ...

Cheers

Joachim

So you want something like a find . -name '*.dtml' which doesn't show directories? Well, what you could do to create the tarball is something like: find . -name '*.dtml' | tar -T - -cvf dtml.tar which uses -T on gnu tar to read the filenames from stdin.