I'm creating a .tar.xz archive like this:
XZ_DEFAULTS="T$(nproc)" tar cvfJ "$archive" -C "$dir" .
It's creating this useless . directory when I try to open the archive:
How can I fix that?
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This seems to work:
(shopt -s dotglob && cd "$dir" && XZ_DEFAULTS="--threads=0" tar cvfJ "$archive" *)
(Improved with Freddy's suggestion)
It's a little annoying because $archive has to be an absolute path or relative to $dir now and , but I can work around that at least.* doesn't generally include dot files
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dotglobif you usebashand want to include hidden files:(shopt -s dotglob; cd "$dir"; XZ_DEFAULTS="T$(nproc)" tar cvfJ "$archive" *)Freddy– Freddy2020-06-15 01:29:30 +00:00Commented Jun 15, 2020 at 1:29