Re: GNU Tar on Windows XP

find c:\Writing\Winbatch -type d | tar -cvf wr.tar -T - --no-recursion

okay that's a little better

however some of the folders start with \20... which I think tar
expands
into ???

actual names...

J:\Temp Folders\wbtTemp>find c:\Writing\Winbatch -type d
c:\Writing\Winbatch
c:\Writing\Winbatch\2007-Tutorial
c:\Writing\Winbatch\2007-Tutorial\Access
c:\Writing\Winbatch\2007-Tutorial\Excel
c:\Writing\Winbatch\2007-Tutorial\MSIE
c:\Writing\Winbatch\2007-Tutorial\Web

tar finds it as...

tar: Cannot add file c:\Writing\WinbatchÇ7-Tutorial: No such file or
directory
tar: Cannot add file c:\Writing\WinbatchÇ7-Tutorial\Access: No such
file or directory
tar: Cannot add file c:\Writing\WinbatchÇ7-Tutorial\Excel: No such
file or directory
tar: Cannot add file c:\Writing\WinbatchÇ7-Tutorial\MSIE: No such file
or directory
tar: Cannot add file c:\Writing\WinbatchÇ7-Tutorial\Web: No such file
or directory

Anyway, I'm pretty happy that we can get this far.

I'll have to see how tar handles the Extract I did on this folder with
all the files.

here's a quick -t so most of the files look like they're there. of
course I used
the UNIX-style path of c:/Writing/* to build it.

drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2008-01-10 11:39 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      930 2007-09-19 10:41 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/2007-Winbatch-Tutorial.txt
-rwSrwSrw- user/group    43559 2007-10-06 07:22 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/230265.htm
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2008-02-23 10:15 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/Access/
-rwSrwSrw- user/group     1365 2007-10-10 12:30 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/Access/Acc-Export-Test-1.wbt
-rwSrwSrw- user/group     2603 2007-10-06 11:43 writing/Winbatch/2007-
Tutorial/Access/Acc-Import-Test-1.wbt