Comments on: tar cannot stat

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:05:54 +0000

Ugh… some days. Thanks! This had me completely frazzled.

Stephen — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:21:56 +0000

Thanks!

And Erik, the v needs to be before the f as well

Grr — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:42:52 +0000

This is why I “cannot stat” the command line.

Dan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:38:42 +0000

Thanks. Amazingly, GNU’s own manual flagrantly ignores this:

“Wtf?” I might reasonably exclaim to their face.

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:01:30 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

Neel — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:28:54 +0000

Thanks heaps! I was trying to backup my htdocs and i ran into the same problem. This page was really helpful to fix it.. cheers..

Erik Hansen — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:37:43 +0000

Thanks for this post! It helped me with an issue I was having. I was trying to use: tar -czfv but I guess tar didn’t like the “v”

Bletaverse — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:07:19 +0000

Thanks! you saved my day! I searched many forums and found no good answer until this.