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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tar extract a multiple directories Post 302948593 by Smiling Dragon on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 05:48:56 PM
Old 06-30-2015
It's not immediately obvious from the script what the directory and file structure you are working with looks like. Based on the first line, it looks like you have a number of directories in /tarfiles, each directory can contain one of more tar files which you immediately delete.
Next, you are looking for tar gz files that are in the /tarfiles directory and are named after each subdirectory, and then moving them into that subdirectory, it looks like there could be more than one per directory.
Once all that's done, you are unzipping the tar gzs, and then untaring them.

If all that is true, then we can proceed.

Each of the files returned by your for loop will already have the right directory included in it, you are then prepending the directory name again. You'd end up with something like /tarfiles/abcd/abcd/abcd-foo.tar when you actually want /tarfiles/abcd/abcd-foo.tar - thus tar saying it can't find the file.

If that's indeed what's happening, just remove the $dir part of the input file being passed to tar.
 

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GIT-TAR-TREE(1) 						    Git Manual							   GIT-TAR-TREE(1)

NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ] DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/). Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the generated tar archive. git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id. OPTIONS
<tree-ish> The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object. <base> Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive. --remote=<repo> Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. CONFIGURATION
tar.umask This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -) Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory. git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release. git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com. git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/. GIT
Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.8.3.1 06/10/2014 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)
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