strange problem while compressing a directory

kartheekpn · 07-26-2005, 07:16 AM

Hello everybody,
i am trying to compress a directory "2005-07-25_21-19" but getting strange error...
shell# tar -cj 2005-07-25_21-19/ -f 2005-07-25_21-19.tar.bz2

upon executing this command i get strange output on the terminal...

OUTPUT:

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why am i getting this????

Plz help me...
Regards
KartheeK

mmmm · 07-26-2005, 07:20 AM

Thats what you get is this compressed directory, not error. Try 'tar -cjv "directory" > "directory".taz.bz2' This redirect OUTPUT to .tar.bz2 file

kartheekpn · 07-26-2005, 07:28 AM

same error still....

mmmm · 07-31-2005, 02:19 PM

maybe :
echo `tar -cjv "directory"` > "directory".taz.bz2

eddiebaby1023 · 07-31-2005, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mmmm
Thats what you get is this compressed directory, not error. Try 'tar -cjv "directory" > "directory".taz.bz2' This redirect OUTPUT to .tar.bz2 file

The -f flag he's using should be doing the redirection.

Try taking the '/' off the first argument. If that makes no difference, retry your original command and add >stdout 2>stderr and see what ends up in those two files.

mmmm · 08-04-2005, 12:39 PM

Maybe try without bz2 (no -j flag) ?