Hi

Running RedHat 7.2

I had a tar script with the following lines.

#!/bin/sh 
# 
ls -R scripttest
tar -cvf scripttest > scripttest.tar 
ls -l 
#

It would only produce a tar of zero bytes 

Error Message: tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

I eventually  ommitted the f from the cvf and it worked

I know that the cvf should work as seen in this example :

Host% tar -cvf $RMT -C ~joe . -C /sm4/joe/ .

From:
https://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/tar.html

Is this a bug, or is my script wrong?

Thanks

Andrew

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