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Old 02-24-2011
Zipped tar file is corrupt
Hello, I am currently dumping 30-40 reports on a Unix folder located here /home/apps/reports/prode/excel
I use K-shell to do this task. In that, I use the gzip command to compress these files. I want to be able to use a tar command to first load the entire directory into one file then gzip that file and post on a network drive, but I am having issues.

Here are the commands that I have been using and failing with...

x 'cd /home/apps/reports/prode/excel';
x 'tar -cvf list_engine_zip.tar /home/apps/reports/prode/excel';
x 'gzip list_engine_zip.tar.gz';

for some reason the zipped tar file is corrupt and I am unable to read it on the network drive, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks.

Pramodini
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Old 02-24-2011
fyi - the correct term is compressed not zipped.

the third command should be
Code:
gzip list_engine_zip.tar

what do you mean by corrupt and that you cannot read it? please post the errors your getting
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Pramodini Rode
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Old 02-25-2011
Thank you for your suggestion. That works!!

Pramodini
 
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