Hi
Tar does not remove files after creating the archive (with the -r flag)
as stated in the man pages:
With the -c flag it works correctly.
--remove-files
remove files after adding them to the archive
Here is my script:
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$ cat ./tts.sh
echo "hello there" > toets.txt
sleep 1
ls -l toets.txt
tar -rf archivetest.tar toets.txt --remove-files
rc=$?
echo "rc = $rc"
sleep 1
ls -l toets.txt
And the result:
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$ ./tts.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 cobus cobus 11 Jul 11 09:12 toets.txt
rc = 0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 cobus cobus 11 Jul 11 09:12 toets.txt
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$
==========================================================
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$ cat ./tts.sh
echo "hello daar" > toets.txt
sleep 1
ls -l toets.txt
tar -cvf archivetest.tar toets.txt --remove-files
rc=$?
echo "rc = $rc"
sleep 1
ls -l toets.txt
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$ ./tts.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 cobus cobus 11 Jul 11 09:22 toets.txt
toets.txt
rc = 0
ls: cannot access toets.txt: No such file or directory
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$ uname -a
Linux dev2 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 00:01:37 BST
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[cobus@dev2 tmp]$
Kind regards
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Cobus Aikman
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