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 also creates a subdirectory '.' in the archive. Actually it doesn't
matter because when unpacking the archive that has no effect.

The problem is that I need the return value to check if the action was
successful.

Has anyone an idea?

kind regards

Philipp

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.


--

//Aho

J.O. Aho wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Thanks for your fast reply.

I think I'm doing that with the command -C.
I jump into the directory '/net_tests/tests/dir_one'
There I perform the packing on all files located '.'.

I now tried to change the directory by hand and perform the following
command:

tar --remove-files -czf myzip.tar.gz . --exclude=file3
--exclude=myzip.tar.gz

but got the same result.

regards Philipp

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

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 :


tar: compile.sh: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_23s.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_23s_inp.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_9s.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_9s_inp.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_fast.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: test_fast_inp.cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Which are the files in the directory where i did the call and not the
files of the directory I want to archive.

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

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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:50:08 +0200, Philipp Ghirardini wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:50:08 +0200, Philipp Ghirardini wrote:

> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for your fast reply.
>
> I think I'm doing that with the command -C. I jump into the directory
> '/net_tests/tests/dir_one' There I perform the packing on all files
> located '.'.
>
> I now tried to change the directory by hand and perform the following
> command:
>
> tar --remove-files -czf myzip.tar.gz . --exclude=file3
> --exclude=myzip.tar.gz
>
> but got the same result.
>
> regards Philipp

Did you do * here when you changed to this directory by hand? It seems
to work for me. Also have you played with --strip or --strip-components?

js@blackbox:~/test$ ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 js js 29 2008-06-15 12:09 apple -rw-r--r-- 1 js js 24
2008-06-15 12:09 banana -rw-r--r-- 1 js js 139 2008-06-15 12:11
test.tar.gz

js@blackbox:~/test$ tar --remove-files -czf test.tar.gz * \
--exclude=banana --exclude=test.tar.gz

js@blackbox:~/test$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 js js 24 2008-06-15 12:09 banana -rw-r--r-- 1 js js 139
2008-06-15 12:16 test.tar.gz

js@blackbox:~/test$ tar -f test.tar.gz -t apple

Philipp Ghirardini wrote:
> 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

If in bash, you could try with set -x and see if you get something
useful upon invocation of tar.

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:47:22 +0200, Philipp Ghirardini typed this message:

> 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

Could it be you're having a problem because you're creating the
myzip.tar.gz in the same folder/dir that you're trying to archive and
remove files?

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