On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:50:56 +0200, Philipp Ghirardini wrote:

> jellybean stonerfish wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:54:11 +0200, Philipp Ghirardini wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>> I think the problem is that the command is packing the '.' and so it
>>> is trying to remove it what fails of course. I also creates a
>>> subdirectory '.' in the archive. Actually it doesn't matter because
>>> when unpacking the archive that has no effect.
>>>
>>> Philipp
>>
>> Can you use a * to get all the files rather than a . to get the dir?
>>
>> stonerfish
>>
> No, I tried that but than I got :

Ok I think I see something.
What dir are you in when running tar? The . means what in your original
post?
Are you in /net_tests/tests/dir_one
if not try (backslashes added)

tar --remove-files -C /net_tests/tests/dir_one -czf \
/net_tests/tests/dir_one/myzip.tar.gz /net_tests/tests/dir_one/* \
--exclude=file3 --exclude=myzip.tar.gz


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