[Bug-tar] (no subject)

[Andrew]

Hi

 

Running RedHat 7.2

 

I had a tar script with the following lines.

#!/bin/sh

#

ls -R scripttest

tar –cvf scripttest > scripttest.tar

ls –l

#

 

It would only produce a tar of zero bytes

 

Error Message: tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

 

I eventually  ommitted the f from the cvf and it worked

 

I know that the cvf should work as seen in this example :

Host% tar -cvf $RMT -C ~joe . -C /sm4/joe/ .

 

From:
https://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/tar.html

 

Is this a bug, or is my script wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Andrew