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Old 10-22-2010
Script for Taring the all the folderand move into another server
I Need to run a Unix Aix Shell Script should contains

1)Find all the folders in the directory /fss/fin.

2)Tar the Folders.
3)Move the Tar folders into another directory /fs/fi which in server .s11003232sz.net

4)When user requests untar the Folders and move it back to the orignal directory /fss/fi

Please help

Below script is not working since there is no GNU
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
 
#########################################################################################
## THIS SCRIPT BEGINS HERE ##
#########################################################################################
 
#Check for the all folders in the Directory
 
find /fss/fin -type d -name "*" -print
 
# Tar the Folders in the current directory and Move it into separate server directory
 
(cd /fss/fin ; find * -maxdepth 0 -type d -print 0 | xargs -0 tar -cvf -) | 
tar -xf - -C / fs/fi 
 
#########################################################################################
## THIS SCRIPT ENDS HERE ##
#########################################################################################

Last edited by Scott; 10-22-2010 at 09:29 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 10-22-2010
I am not sure why you use such a complicated approach - not to mention that the AIX tar doesn't understand "-maxdepth", because it is no GNU-tar:

Code:
tar -cvf /path/to/tarfile $(find ./* -prune -type d -print)

should more or less do what you want.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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