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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Subject: Re: taring filenames>100 char?
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.182744.29286@ssd.kodak.com>
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 18:27:44 GMT


In article <1991Apr9.075208.25211@uniwa.uwa.oz>, chris@ec.uwa.oz.au
(Christoph Uloth - operator) writes:
|> how can I tar a directory structure where the total pathname/filename
|> is larger than 100 characters

Two things that come to mind right away. Let's say you want to tar
~/<very_long_path>/*.dat

1) % cd ~/<very_long_path>
   % tar c *.dat
or
   % cd ~/<very_long_path>/..
   % tar c ./*.dat

2) create a link to shorten the path.
   % cd ~
   % ln -s <very_long_path> short-cut
   % tar c short-cut/*.dat

The -C option might also be what you are looking for. Since you don't
give any details, it's hard to say what might be best for your case.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )