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Hello all,

I was attempting to create a tar file via this command:

tar cpf 20100529.tar | find . -name *20100529*
Attempt to create archive of no files. Nothing dumped.

which produced a list of several files in the .tar file but in the end the file was:

-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx_xxxx users 0 May 31 17:38 20100529.tar

zero byte file.

That being said, when i was attempting to run:

find . -name *20100529* | wc -l
I normally would get 320 files but now i get 1... how do i rollback the .tar file i created so the wc -l shows the correct amount?

Thanks,

riker

Try this:

Code:

find . -name *20100529* -exec tar rf 20100529.tar {} \;

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, looks like your files are gone away, so my command won't help you that much now.

came back with a:

Tar: blocksize = 0; broken pipe?

When I check the folder the files reside in, they seem fine... very weird that it can't count them regardless...

If it came from my command, remove the existing (corrupted) tar (20100529.tar) first and try to run it again.

So I should just delete the tar file outright?

rm 20100529.tar

Yeah, why not? It's corrupted.. Size is 0, right?

yep... ok... here goes nothing...