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Re: [Bug-tar] -A option is not treating links correctly


From: Nathan Stratton Treadway
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] -A option is not treating links correctly
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 00:03:06 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 15:36:41 -0500, Newman, Phillip A. (GSFC-6602) wrote:
>       tar -T $one -cvf $dest/03272013.03272013.RXTE.XTE_IDX1.MASTER.gz.1.tar 
> >& $log/03262013.03262013.RXTE.XTE_IDX1.MASTER.gz.1.log
>       @ ktr++
>    else
>       tar -T $one -Avf $dest/03272013.03272013.RXTE.XTE_IDX1.MASTER.gz.1.tar 
> >>& $log/03262013.03262013.RXTE.XTE_IDX1.MASTER.gz.1.log
[...]
> The first tar command works fine.  The second tar command using the -A
> option faults when it encounters the first link:
> 
> tar: ./RXTE/XTE_IDX1/AO1/P10255/10255-01-07-00/cal: Read error at byte 0, 
> while reading 4096 bytes: Is a directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The "-A" option is for appending two tar archives together;  I think
the "-r" option is the one you are looking for...

  $ tar --help | grep append
  -A, --catenate, --concatenate   append tar files to an archive
  -r, --append               append files to the end of an archive
 [...]


                                                Nathan

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