"tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" is because you are not
running the tar command from within the directory you are archiving.
Use the -C switch to specify the directory you want to run tar from.
tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz -C /work/dev/ *
That will switch to the /work/dev directory and run tar from there,
backing up everything in it.
On 7/27/2010 1:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
Hi,
If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/"
from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the
exception of the one message that says "tar: Removing leading `/' from
member names", which I am not sure exactly what that means.
If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
#!/bin/bash
/bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
I get the following output:
: command not founde 2:
/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
: command not founde 4:
I am not sure why these errors. Any help is much appreciated.
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Keith Smith
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