Philipp Ghirardini wrote:
> hi!
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I want to pack all files in a special directory except some particular
> ones and delete them afterwards. The files shall be in the archive
> without subdirectories.
>
> I have the following tar command:
>
> tar --remove-files -C /net_tests/tests/dir_one -czf
> /net_tests/tests/dir_one/myzip.tar.gz . --exclude=file3
> --exclude=myzip.tar.gz
>
>
> Actually it does exactly what I want but it returns 2 and not 0 because
> of the following reason:
>
> tar: .: Cannot rmdir: Invalid argument
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
> I think the problem is that the command is packing the '.' and so it is
> trying to remove it what fails of course.

I think the tar is trying to delete dir_one, it could be better you
switch to the directory in question, run the command (without the
paths), think that will result in a 0.


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