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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers TAR and ZIP files Post 302594921 by Corona688 on Wednesday 1st of February 2012 01:44:26 PM
Old 02-01-2012
tar does not read from standard input. Smilie

tar works the way I showed you, not the way you're trying to use it. Smilie

Since you refuse to explain any of the details, I still have no idea what you're even trying to do. I also asked what your system was and received no answer. This information is needed to answer some of your questions.

Why would the tar file be in /opt/informatica/infa_shared/SrcFiles/arch when you told tar to read files from /opt/informatica/infa_shared/SrcFiles/arch ? It ends up in the current directory because you didn't tell it anything else.

There is also much useless use of ls * in your code. ls is not the thing that understands *, any command is given the corresponding filenames when you use *. You might as well just put the * where you want the filenames to appear in the first place -- which is, as I demonstrated, the last arguments of tar.

You also have lots of unbracketed variables which are going to screw up. _$DATE_OF_RUN_$OTHER will mess up because you have no variable named $DATE_OF_RUN_. You use ${VARNAME} style brackets to defeat that.

I'll venture a third try at what I'm guessing you want:

Code:
TARFILE="/opt/informatica/infa_shared/SrcFiles/arch/${ENVID}_$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S").tar.gz"
# Create the compressed tar file
tar -zcf "${TARFILE}" "${ENVID}_"*"_${DATE_OF_RUN}.${ENVID}_"*".TXT"
# List files inside the tar file
tar -ztf "${TARFILE}" > ${LOGFILE}

And again, if you tell me what your system is, there may or may not be a 'verify' option that would be of use to you. But there's no point pointing it out if you don't have it. What is your system?
 

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GPG-ZIP(1)						      General Commands Manual							GPG-ZIP(1)

NAME
gpg-zip - encrypt or sign files into an archive SYNOPSIS
gpg-zip [OPTIONS] filename1 [filename2, ...] directory1 [directory2, ...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the gpg-zip command. gpg-zip encrypts or signs files into an archive. It is an gpg-ized tar using the same format as PGP's PGP Zip. OPTIONS
-e, --encrypt Encrypt data. This option may be combined with --symmetric (for output that may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase). -d, --decrypt Decrypt data. -c, --symmetric Encrypt with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase. The default symmetric cipher used is CAST5, but may be chosen with the --cipher-algo option to gpg(1). -s, --sign Make a signature. See gpg(1). -r, --recipient USER Encrypt for user id USER. See gpg(1). -u, --local-user USER Use USER as the key to sign with. See gpg(1). --list-archive List the contents of the specified archive. -o, --output FILE" Write output to specified file FILE. --gpg GPG Use the specified command instead of gpg. --gpg-args ARGS Pass the specified options to gpg(1). --tar TAR Use the specified command instead of tar. --tar-args ARGS Pass the specified options to tar(1). -h, --help Output a short usage information. --version Output the program version. DIAGNOSTICS
The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 otherwise. EXAMPLES
Encrypt the contents of directory mydocs for user Bob to file test1: gpg-zip --encrypt --output test1 --gpg-args -r Bob"" mydocs List the contents of archive test1: gpg-zip --list-archive test1 SEE ALSO
gpg(1), tar(1) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Please report bugs to <bug-gnupg@gnu.org>. This manpage was written by Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org> and Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian distribution (but may be used by others). November 2006 GPG-ZIP(1)
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