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Try to change the lengthy directory name and use it in a script.. If no use, then revert to proceed further..
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Can you try with cpio to see if same problem occurs?
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find <directory> -print | cpio -ocv ><dirname>.cpio
To see the content...
cpio -cit< <dirname>.cpio
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cpio work correctly, but I cannot substitute tar with cpio because other scripts are based on a tar file.

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javan_jay the length of file path doesn't affect the behaviour of the command.
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If cpio passes and not tar, then Im quite sure there is hidden links...
so try again using tar's -l option (HPUX11.11 man:
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l Tell tar to complain if it cannot resolve all of the links
to the files being saved. If l is not specified, no error
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Hi vbe, I submitted tar command with -l options. No error and no warning were issued by tar.
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... and I'm sure that there's no link in the input structure (I've verified with ll -R command too)
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Can you show us a example?
What OS version and what architecture?
what type of FS?
If its VXFS have you tried to defragment the directories yet?
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Show an example may be very hard, because I'm try to tar a very big structure (992 files for over 1.5 GB). All what I can do is to send you a text file containing the output issued by tar, if you tell me how I can.
I'm using HP-Unix B.11.00 on a RISC machine, FS is a VXFS type and I didn't try to defragment the directories before.
In any case I can add another information. I tried to tar files beeing directly into the directory that contains them and tar returned a tar file as expected.
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