From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 12:54:11 EDT
Well, if "/XPmnt" is the directory and it appears in the process list as
you said, than you are tarring the whole directory followed by the a-d
subdirectories all over again. Gotta get that "/XPmnt" out of there.
I do not see how it got in there based on the tar command you state?
Try:
cd /XPmnt
tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 ./[a-d]*
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"Taylor, David"
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06/02/2003 11:42
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to IBM AIX
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/XPmnt is the directory from which we issued the tar command
ls -d [1-d]* gave me exactly what I expected (directories that start with
1-d).
-----Original Message-----
From: Sunder Iyengar [mailto:Sunder.Iyengar@VERITAS.COM]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 6:22 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: regular expressions and tar
It is interesting to note that you have a /XPmnt as the
first file/directory
name in the list of files/dirs to be backed up. Why is
that? What does a "ls
-d [a-d]*" in the same directory reveal?
Sunder.
-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor, David [mailto:DTaylor@WBMI.COM]
Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2003 6:53 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: regular expressions and tar
Hi *
I am attempting to tar all the subdirectories that begin
with the letters
a-d. The command I used was:
tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 [a-d]*
Looking at the process list, it shows that the shell
expanded the arguments
correctly:
wbmpxdb01 / # ps -fu XPbackup
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
XPbackup 18312 64408 2 May 29 pts/2 33:45 tar -cvf
/dev/rmt0 /XPmnt
brwarne clparch data ddmarqu dmbichl dmwiesn
XPbackup 64408 72142 0 May 28 pts/2 0:00 -ksh
wbmpxdb01 / #
However, as I watch the output to the screen, tar is going
after every
subdirectory.
I have tested this using different ranges and it always
grabs all of the
subdirectories.
Can anyone explain why it might be doing this?
TIA
David
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