Ok,

I use the command tar -cvf ~kw4691/output/test.tar ~kw4691/input on one UNIX server, lets call it sneezy. I FTP the tared file over to another server, lets call it bashful. Use the tar -xvf test.tar command and get the error

~kw4691/input "could not create the directory"
/hom/dev/sy40 Premission denied
tar: ~kw4691/input/XXXXX.pdf - cannot create

I don't want to have to create the same directory on a different box, I just want to be able to un-tar in any dir after I FTP.

Please HELP

Thanks,

Kevin

don't use absolute pathnames when creating an archive - use relative paths.

I have no say where the original files to be tarred are located, and where the location of the tarred file once tarred. These are set locations.

Try this:

cd ~kw4691; tar -cvf output/test.tar input

This should work.

Yea, that does not work I was already at ~kw4691. I just want to be able to tar the files on one server , FTP to another server, and untar without having to match the path where the files were originally tarred.

i.e sneezy server /home/user/input/xxx.pdf's and on bashful server I don't want to have to create that same path "/home/user/input/". I want to be able to untar in /home or /home/user or wherever.

Thanks,

Kevin

tar -cvf ~kw4691/output/test.tar -C /home/user/input .