tar command usage

kingganesh04 · February 16, 2009, 8:57pm

command
```
       tar cf abcd.tar *.prn 
```

There is no *.prn files in the path, eventhough it is creating the abcd.tar.
Can anyone tell me how can i resolve this problem?

taran · February 17, 2009, 12:27am

find `pwd` -name *.prn -exec tar cvf abcd.tar {} \;

otheus · February 19, 2009, 7:17am

Taran's answer is quite wrong. His command will re-create the tar file over and over again with the subsequent file. (It will work if find finds exactly one *.prn file).

So what are you trying to do? Where are these *.prn files?