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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with tar cmd for directories Post 303013923 by sam_bd on Friday 2nd of March 2018 04:27:56 AM
Old 03-02-2018
Help with tar cmd for directories

Hi, I'm working on HP-UX B.11.23 64bit. I tried to tar couple of directories but failed to do so.
$ tar -cvf tar_file_name -C /dir1 /dir2

the -C is for directories as mentioned in the man pages. But still unable to create a tar file having directories and sub-directories.
Requesting help in this regard.
 

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tar.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							      tar.h(3HEAD)

NAME
tar.h, tar - extended tar definitions SYNOPSIS
#include <tar.h> DESCRIPTION
The <tar.h> header defines header block definitions as follows. Name Description Value TMAGIC "ustar" ustar plus null byte TMAGLEN 6 length of the above TVERSION "00" 00 without a null byte TVERSLEN 2 length of the above Typeflag field definitions: Name Description Value REGTYPE '0' regular file AREGTYPE '' regular file LNKTYPE '1' link SYMTYPE '2' symbolic link CHRTYPE '3' character special BLKTYPE '4' block special DIRTYPE '5' directory FIFOTYPE '6' FIFO special CONTTYPE '7' reserved Mode field bit definitions (octal): Name Description Value TSUID 04000 set UID on execution TSGID 02000 set GID on execution TSVTX 01000 on directories, restricted deletion flag TUREAD 00400 read by owner TUWRITE 00200 write by owner special TUEXEC 00100 execute/search by owner TGREAD 00040 read by group TGWRITE 00020 write by group TGEXEC 00010 execute/search by group TOREAD 00004 read by other TOWRITE 00002 write by other TOEXEC 00001 execute/search by other ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 tar.h(3HEAD)
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