Hi-- On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:10 AM, devkumar....@bt.com wrote: > Hi GNU Team,
Well, this is a mailing list for GNU tar, but there are a number of non-GNU folks lurking around here. :-) > This is regarding the creation of tar archive from files dropped to unix > through a windows filer. > > Files like ‘call for complaint.txt’ are being considered as three different > arguments for the tar command. Yes, that's standard Unix shell behavior. Use backslashes or quotes to surround filenames containing spaces: tar cf nofile.tar call\ for\ complaint.txt [ ...or... ] tar cf nofile.tar 'call for complaint.txt' > <image002.jpg> > > The archive Nofile.tar.Z is being created with 164 bytes although it doesnot > contain any files. > > Is there any way to stop the tar command from generating the .tar archive if > the files don’t exist? No; it's not considered an error to create a tar file which archived zero files. Regards, -- -Chuck
