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Old 05-30-2013
Tar command not taring all files
I am just creating tar.gz file with comand tar -zcvf xyz.tar.gz /home/xyz/*

xyz folder contains thousands of files mostly .c, .cpp, etc..

I see that many times all the files are not zipped.
Many files(in hundreds) are abruptly left out.

What may be the reason for this and how to resolve this issue?
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Old 05-30-2013
Is there an error message (i.e. permission errors)?

If you have hidden files, you may want to use /home/xyz/. instead.
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Old 05-30-2013
There are no hidden files scott.
It does not display any error but when I see using ls -l I see the huge difference in size.
The same command tars all files some times and some times it leave many of the files.
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Old 05-30-2013
The size would be different if you've compressed the files. Have you used tar tvf to test the tar file and verify its contents?
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files are not compressed.
I checked using tvf and I saw many files missing.
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Old 05-30-2013
What OS are you on? Are any of those files that you claim tar is skipping, symbolic links and/or hard links? Is there a pattern to the files that tar is skipping?
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Old 05-30-2013
I am on SLES Linux.
there is no specific pattern and files are randomly omitted.
 
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