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Try to change the lengthy directory name and use it in a script.. If no use, then revert to proceed further..

Can you try with cpio to see if same problem occurs?

Code:

find <directory> -print | cpio -ocv ><dirname>.cpio
To see the content...
cpio -cit< <dirname>.cpio

cpio work correctly, but I cannot substitute tar with cpio because other scripts are based on a tar file.

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javan_jay the length of file path doesn't affect the behaviour of the command.

If cpio passes and not tar, then Im quite sure there is hidden links...
so try again using tar's -l option (HPUX11.11 man:

Hi vbe, I submitted tar command with -l options. No error and no warning were issued by tar.
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... and I'm sure that there's no link in the input structure (I've verified with ll -R command too)

Can you show us a example?
What OS version and what architecture?
what type of FS?
If its VXFS have you tried to defragment the directories yet?

Show an example may be very hard, because I'm try to tar a very big structure (992 files for over 1.5 GB). All what I can do is to send you a text file containing the output issued by tar, if you tell me how I can.
I'm using HP-Unix B.11.00 on a RISC machine, FS is a VXFS type and I didn't try to defragment the directories before.
In any case I can add another information. I tried to tar files beeing directly into the directory that contains them and tar returned a tar file as expected.
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