[Cialug] create .tgz on Win32

David Champion cialug@cialug.org
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:29:23 -0600


Will be running as a .bat script scheduled task, as Administrator. My 
test was when logged in as Administrator.

I typed:

tar -cvf - c:\test\*.* | gzip > test.tgz

It says:

tar: Cannot open-: Permission denied

Maybe the stdin / stdout thing is b0rked in the Win32 version.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> If you are running it in a script (webserver?) on windows, did you make sure
> the account it is running under has permissions to the executable and to the
> drives it is accessing?
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:21 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] create .tgz on Win32
> 
> 
> 
> What tools would all y'all use to create a .tgz (gnu tar gzip) on a 
> Win32 server? Has to be command line capable to call from a script.
> 
> I tried the tools from gnuwin32.sourceforge.net, and they're getting 
> errors. I can create a plain tar, and can create a gzip, but piping the 
> tar thru gzip generates dll errors.
> 
> I suppose I could do it in 2 steps - create the tar, then gzip it.
> 
> -dc