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# 1  
Old 07-30-2009
tar and untar commands
I have a script to ftp, archive and delete files. I used tar command to archive files from a list and then all files were removed from name1/name2/name2/.

Code:
 
find /name1/name2/name2/ -name "*.txt" -print > filelist.log
while read line
do
  if [ ! -e "$tarfile" ]; then
     tar cvf $tarfile $line
  else
     tar rvf $tarfile $line
  fi
done < filelist.log
#

How to untar and move files back to name1/name2/name2/ ?
# 2  
Old 07-30-2009
use tar xvf filename.tar to untar
# 3  
Old 07-31-2009
I did, but cannot find the files. All files were in folder name1/name2/name3/name4/name5/name6/ and the tar file in the folder: name1/name2/name3/name4/

Quote:
[user@name/ name1/name2/name3/name4/]$ tar xvf bfotarfile.tar
name1/name2/name3/name4/name5/name6/file-intid_1.txt
name1/name2/name3/name4/name5/name6/file-intid_3.txt
name1/name2/name3/name4/name5/name6/ file-intid_2.txt

[user@name/name1/name2/name3/name4/name5/name6/]$ dir
total 0
# 4  
Old 07-31-2009
Use "tar tvf" to list all the files on the archive. This will tell you the exact path name of all files on the archive. I don't see how your filenames do not have a leading solidis character because the archive was created with absolute pathnames.
Have you tried "ls -la" rather than "dir" ?
 
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