03-09-2017
Hi,
This error indicates that the content you asked tar to add to an archive could not be found, and so it could not proceed. So either the directory robert_test/after_louise_1606 did not exist at the time the tar command ran, or it was located underneath a different part of the filesystem than the current working directory of tar at that time.
One thing you could try here, and which is generally good practice, is to use fully-qualified paths rather than relative paths in a script. So (for example) a path like /home/robert/robert_test/after_louise_1606 (I'm just making up the first part of that path obviously, since I don't know where on your filesystem the directory really is). Fully-qualified paths to binaries and files in scripts are almost always a good idea, and can eliminate an entire class of errors entirely.
So that'd be my take on this: either the directory you tried to add to an archive didn't exist at that exact moment in time, or you weren't actually running the tar command in the current working directory you expected to be in.
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NAME
ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive
SYNOPSIS
ptargrep [options] <pattern> <tar file> ...
Options:
--basename|-b ignore directory paths from archive
--ignore-case|-i do case-insensitive pattern matching
--list-only|-l list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
--verbose|-v write debugging message to STDERR
--help|-? detailed help message
DESCRIPTION
This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents of files contained in a tar archive. You might use this to identify all
files in an archive which contain lines matching the specified pattern and either print out the pathnames or extract the files.
The pattern will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a simple grep regex).
Multiple tar archive filenames can be specified - they will each be processed in turn.
OPTIONS
--basename (alias -b)
When matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from the archive and write to the current directory using the basename of
the file from the archive. Beware: if two matching files in the archive have the same basename, the second file extracted will
overwrite the first.
--ignore-case (alias -i)
Make pattern matching case-insensitive.
--list-only (alias -l)
Print the pathname of each matching file from the archive to STDOUT. Without this option, the default behaviour is to extract each
matching file.
--verbose (alias -v)
Log debugging info to STDERR.
--help (alias -?)
Display this documentation.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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