Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[Mark Stoecker]

"tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" is because you are not 
running the tar command from within the directory you are archiving.  
Use the -C switch to specify the directory you want to run tar from.

tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz -C /work/dev/ *

That will switch to the /work/dev directory and run tar from there, 
backing up everything in it.

On 7/27/2010 1:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/" 
> from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the 
> exception of the one message that says "tar: Removing leading `/' from 
> member names", which I am not sure exactly what that means.
>
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
>
>   #!/bin/bash
>
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
>
>
> I get the following output:
>
> : command not founde 2:
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> /bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> : command not founde 4:
>
> I am not sure why these errors.  Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
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