I'm trying to tar a directory recursively but when I open the tar after downloading it there seems to be random files and directories missing from the tar file.

tar -cf mytar.tar *

My latest attempt tar'd about 5 directories but there should have been about 20

Does anyone have any idea why?

Try

tar cvf file.tar *

does it say it's grabbing all the dirs?

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Yeah it shows them all. The file is huge....over 1GB...then when I open it up with WinRAR there are only a few directories there :(

Phew....seems it might be a WinRAR bug. Winzip extracts all directories properly.

Whilst I'm thinking, do you know a good way of recursively deleting a specific file from all directories?

I need to get rid of this .cinik file I have everywhere :(

rm -f `find . -name .cinik`

will work. Do a `find . -name .cink` first to make sure it lists all the files you want to remove.

I'd go with Will here though, you should reinstall the o/s, as there is no telling what backdoors the person has left open so that they can get back in at a later date.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Yeah I'm going to do that over the next couple of days.

Just what I needed

Thanks for the help.