> I have a script that tars a all the sub directories of a directory into > individual tar files for each subdirectory. I have an exclude file that > is set to skip some of the folders I don't want tarred. This works but > it creates the empty tar files. Is this normal? Yes. It is, in fact, exactly what you've told tar to do: create a tar file containg everything in directory foo, excluding files in directory foo. This gives us an empty tar file.
> Can it be set not to do this? I can't see any immediately obvious way to stop tar making empty files, but you could try a script like this: tar --create ... # Whatever arguments you're currently using for tar. [ `tar -tf foo.tar | wc -l` -eq 0 ] && rm foo.tar replacing foo.tar with the filename of the generated tarball which might be empty. (The second line checks whether the tar file is empty, and rm-s it if it is). This isn't a terribly pleasant solution, but it should work. Steven Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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