On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:35:21PM -0800, Erin S. wrote: > 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 >
You're dead on. Some other fun tar things: tar -cjvf ... make it a bzip2 (bz2 extension) tar -cZvf ... run it through compress (I don't have compress so this doesn't work for me) tar has a great many options, I found about these through tar --help. I love --help. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://students.cs.byu.edu/~spr/ GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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