nope. it won't work..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] share]$ tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps
pixmaps/
tar (child): pixmaps.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
pixmaps/3D-Gun.xpm
pixmaps/Ant.xpm
Broken pipe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] share]$
is that permission problems
--- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded Message ---
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:13:24 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to zip/compress a directory?
> "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I would like to zip a directory... gunzip -c > pixmaps.gz doesn't seem
to
>
> >work. Also, I don't have a root password, I am an ordinary user only.
>
> No need to be root. Try 'tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps', if you're
> trying to compress the pixmaps directory. 'tar xzvf pixmaps.tar.gz' will
> decompress it again.
>
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> Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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