i accept corrections if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure that if you do: tar -czvf /tmp/ng32backup.tar.gz ~/ you'll have what you want... the z means to zip (compress) if i'm remembering all of this correctly... that would mean that it would be a gzipped tar, and so you should give it the additional gz extension... am i right? ~Erin
--- Nathan Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay... > > I've figured out how to tar things... > > I can tar my entire home directory... > > tar -cvf /tmp/ng32backup.tar ~/ > > but does that compress the files also? > > How do I compress the files? > > Thanks! > -- > Nathan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies ===== http://www.userfriendly.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
