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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:53:27+00:00

I’m trying to tar up all the *.class files only on a Solaris box

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I’m trying to tar up all the *.class files only on a Solaris box under a certain directory. Reading the man pages for tar made it seem like the -I option is what I wanted. This is what I’ve tried from the dir in question:

find . -name '*.class' >> ~/includes.txt tar cvf ~/classfiles.tar -I ~/includes.txt

From that I get:

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /home/myhomedir/includes.txt

And the ~/classfiles.tar files is garbage.

I don’t have write permission on the dir where the *.class files are so I need to have the tar written to my home dir. Could someone tell me where I have gone wrong? What tar magic should I use?

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  1. Check which tar you are running. That message about removing the leading slash is a gtar (GNU tar) message, and the -I option you are trying to use is a Sun tar option (which lives in /bin/tar).

    (at least the above is all true on my Solaris machine)

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