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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue with tar command Post 302941287 by Junaid Subhani on Tuesday 14th of April 2015 06:40:39 PM
Old 04-14-2015
Issue with tar command
Hi all,

I have a folder that I am trying to tar ut is leading to unexpected results.

Ive written a script that find a certain number of files(logs) with specific names older than 14 days, moves them to a folder and compresses that folder.

Code:
_ARCHIVE=/opt/test/archived_logs
_DAILY=/opt/test/archived_logs/logs_$(date +"%Y_%m_%d")


cd $_BASE/$i/log
find $_BASE/$i/log \( -name "*out.*" -o -name "*log.*" -o -name "event-runtime-*" -o -name "event-[0-9]*" -o -name "upload-trace-*" -o -name "pmm-[0-9]*" \) -mtime +14 -exec mv {} $_DAILY \;

tar -zcvf $_DAILY.tar.gz $_DAILY

The find commands returns me a number of log files and places them into $_DAILY .

The problem that I am seeing is that when I untar the file created by the end, I have to go down further directories like:

Code:
[user@server archived_logs]$ ls -tlrh
total 12K
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 5.8K Apr 14 15:05 logs_2015_04_14.tar.gz
drwxrwxr-x 3 user group 4.0K Apr 14 15:55 opt

[user@server archived_logs]$ pwd
/opt/ericsson/archived_logs

[user@server archived_logs]$  cd opt/test/archived_logs/logs_2015_04_14

[user@server archived_logs]$ file opt/ericsson/archived_logs/logs_2015_04_14
opt/test/archived_logs/logs_2015_04_14: ASCII English text, with very long lines

how can I remove the path (opt/test/archived_logs) created ?

Secondly the initial folder contains a number of log files. But when I untar the file, I only have one file in it rather than a number of log files.

Any idea what I am doing wrong ?
 

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rmf

rmf(1mh)																  rmf(1mh)

Name
       rmf - remove folder

Syntax
       rmf [ +folder ] [ -help ] [ -[no]interactive ]

Description
       The  command  removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself.  If there are any files within the
       folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed.

       You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument.  If you do not specify a folder, and cannot find  the
       current folder, asks you whether you want to delete instead.

       If the current folder is removed, it makes current.

       Note that the command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.

       If  the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and tells you that this has happened.  This
       provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list  and  returning  to  the  current
       folder from which the list was extracted.

       Using to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder
       itself.	If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself.

Options
       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

       -interactive
       -nointeractive
		 Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder.  By default, deletes a folder and its messages without asking	for  confirmation.
		 If  you  specify  the	-interactive option, asks if you are sure before deleting the folder.  You are advised to use this option,
		 since when deletes a folder its contents are lost irretrievably.

Examples
       This example shows how asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used:
       % rmf -interactive +test
       Remove folder "test"? y

Profile Components
       Path:   To determine the user's Mail directory

Files
       The user profile.

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