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How can I create Ant TarTask for this tar command?

tar zcvf Test.tar.gz / var / trac / test / var / svn / test

So far I have:

<target name="archive" depends="init">
    <tar compression="gzip" destfile="test.tar.gz">
        <tarfileset dir="/">
            <include name="/var/trac/test" />
        </tarfileset>
        <tarfileset dir="/">
            <include name="/var/trac/svn" />
        </tarfileset>
    </tar>
</target>

When debugging, it always says "No sources", so I am a bit confused about what to do next.

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There are a few things that can go wrong here:

  • Are files or directories /var/trac/test

    and /var/svn/test

    ? The real one tar

    will work great with both; your task is the way it's written right now, will only work with files, not folders.

  • Do you (or rather the Ant process) have the appropriate permissions?

    The elements

  • <include>

    contain patterns that are usually relative to the base dir. You specify them as absolute.

I would rewrite the above as:



<target name="archive" depends="init">
  <tar compression="gzip" destfile="test.tar.gz">
    <tarfileset dir="/var/trac" prefix="/var/trac">
      <include name="test/**" /> 
      <include name="svn/**" />
    </tarfileset>
  </tar>
</target>

prefix

allows you to explicitly specify the path from which the files in the Tar archive should begin.

/**

inside <include>

tells Ant to take all files from this folder and all its subfolders. If /var/trac/test

and /var/svn/test

are indeed files, not folders, you can omit it.

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