How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
Lane
lane at joeandlane.com
Wed Jun 29 04:01:40 GMT 2005
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:43, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 6/28/2005 8:35 PM Nikolas Britton wrote:
> >It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names.
>
> OK, that might be. But then the question is "why does tar try to copy
> those files if they are not valid?". I assume tar is reading the
> directory structure and finding those file names as I'm not specifying
> them directly. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
Perhaps the user issuing the 'tar' command does not have read access to these
files and directories.
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