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Old 04-02-2014
How to create a TAR File in a Custom Destination Directory?
I want to create the tarzip file into a destination directory, i am in /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri directory and i am using below command. However it is creating the file in the /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri directory itself instead of /tmp, may i please know how do i resolve this.
Code:
tar -cvzf FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz -C /tmp /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

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Old 04-02-2014
try:
Code:
tar -cvzf /tmp/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz -C /tmp /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

You may not want the -C option.
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Old 04-02-2014
As an after thought: /tmp may not be a safe pace to create huge tar files. Some systems map /tmp to RAM rather than to disk. You seem to be using a linux-like version of tar so this may be applicable to your situation.
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Old 04-02-2014
-C applies to reading input files. This doesn't matter since you gave it an absolute path for those, but if you gave it a relative one the results could have been far different.
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Old 04-02-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
try:
Code:
tar -cvzf /tmp/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz -C /tmp /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

You may not want the -C option.
If i do it your way with out using the -C /tmp, i see 2 issues.

1) After creating the tar file i did tar -zxvf FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz, it is creating the subdirectories /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri which i don't want to create, i just want to unzip & untar the file, in which ever directory i am in.

2) why is it removing leading / from member names, is this an error?
Code:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

Thank you.
# 6  
Old 04-02-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ariean
If i do it your way with out using the -C /tmp, i see 2 issues.

1) After creating the tar file i did tar -zxvf FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz, it is creating the subdirectories /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri which i don't want to create, i just want to unzip & untar the file, in which ever directory i am in.
It does that either way. This is normal behavior.

Quote:
2) why is it removing leading / from member names, is this an error?
This is standard behavior for GNU tar. It assumes that you don't necessarily want to overwrite /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/filename every time you extract the tar -- you want to extract it in the current folder, or something given by -C. If it stored the absolute path, that'd override everything, so it strips the first / off.

I believe this is what you want:

Code:
tar -cvzf /tmp/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz -C /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

This tells it to chdir into /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri before doing anything. It will still create the tar in /tmp/ because that was given an absolute path.
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