jellybean stonerfish wrote:
> 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
>
>
> sf
>
>
>

Using this command exits with 0 but now i have the problem again that
the archiv consists the whole path (/net_tests/tests/dir_one/...).
replacing this part with ./* doesn't work.

regards Philipp