From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 09:23:58 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] tar on v6 not creating directories on v6 In-Reply-To: <566C9772.9040508@gmail.com> References: <566C9772.9040508@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20151212222358.GD5686@server.rulingia.com> On 2015-Dec-12 15:53:54 -0600, Will Senn wrote: >That was ugly and all of it was output. What exactly did I wind up with?: ># ls -l >total 19 >drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Oct 10 12:54 y >-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 8704 Oct 10 12:54 t.tar > >Ugh. Probably don't need the y directory... ># rmdir y >y ? ># ls y >y not found Presumably, it's not 'y' but has some non-printable characters in it. You could try "od -c ." to see what the entry actually is, or move t.tar out of the way and "rm -r" remove the next level up. >I think this error is simply an effect related to the failure to create >the necessary directories properly. If you run "mkdir foo" from the shell, does it work properly? That will let you split between the problem being in tar and the problem being in mkdir. Adding some printf()s to checkdir() seems a reasonable step. -- Peter Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: not available URL: