tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0' error in FreeBSD [closed]

Question

I have a bash code below under FreeBSD:

tar -c file1 > file1.tar

It gives below error when I run it. Do you know how can I fix it?

tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'

Answer 1

I suggest passing -f - to tar (in addition of the other arguments) to indicate that the tar file you want to create is the stdout stream.

tar -f - -c file1 > file1.tar