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Dan
Asked: 2010-11-12 06:57:34 +0800 CST

tar: kill the error message: 'tar: Removing leading `/' from member names'

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I run this from a cronjob:

tar -czvf /var/backups/svn.tgz /var/svn/*

That generates this on stderr:

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

I would like to avoid this because it is not a real error (for me!). I want on stderr only things that I should worry about?

How can I kill that message?

I have the feeling that it is a matter of using the tar -C option but I am not sure and I don't know how.

Thanks for the help,
Dan

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    your options:

    -P, --absolute-names : don't strip leading `/'s from file names

    or

    -C /

    ... and a relative path for things to go into the tar, like so:

    tar -C / -czvf /var/backups/svn.tgz var/svn/*
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  2. You can write

    # ( tar czvf tar.file /path 2>&1 ) >log.file

    The message will be written to log.file

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