Hi,

> d:\Temp.install\*.*: No such file or directory

Just woke up in the morning, and realized what could be the problem. For
some reason the GNU tar+gzip are parsing the parameters, so you can use the
C string like backslash encodings. Therefore the '\t' is a tab character...
Therefore the "d:\Temp.install\*.*" will seen as "d:\   emp.install\*.*" for
tar as '\T' from the "\Temp" will be replaced by tabulator... Weird and also
sad that when Mr Bill Gates took over the directory handling from Unix and
put it into the CP/M they reversed the slash (as slash was the parameter
separator on CP/M...

Anyway, thanks god if you start using normal slashes it uses slashes for the
entire path plus thanks god XP and Vista can handle slashes too. So this
should work:

C:\>FOR /D %G IN (*.*) DO tar cv "C:/%G/*.*" | gzip > "BACKUP_%G.tgz"

BTW: Did you try WinRar? I am using it for huge archives for backing up the
malware and threat samples and so far had no problem with that, plus it can
split up the archive into given size.

Tamas



On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I made the change but still no luck. I'm not sure why it isn't
> seeing
> what is there...
>
> D:\>"D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe" -c "d:\Temp.install\*.*"
> 1>"k:\gz\Temp.install.gz"
>
> d:\Temp.install\*.*: No such file or directory
>
>
> I'm also try to figure out how to take a list of dirs and get tar/gzip to
> work
> from that perhaps, but I'm don't seem to be getting my mind around it... :(
> I'd
> like not to have to dir to a file, edit the file, then run it
> individually...
>
>
> Tamas Rudnai wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think the quotation is wrong, so it should be like this:
> >
> > FOR /D %%G IN (*.*) DO "D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe" -c
> > "d:\%%G\*.*" > "k:\gz\%%G.gz"
> >
> > Tamas
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
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