Re: [newbie] tar help please

[Mark Potochnik]

Romanator wrote:

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MarkP

Re: [newbie] tar help please

[Romanator]

Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, my printer ran out of ink.
I'll have to write this out in long hand.

Cheers!


Philip Gabbert wrote:
 
 Quite simple .. Tar is an app that gets many people. Got me to until I
 finally figured it out :)
 
 Say you want to tar and zip up /www/ .. All you have to do is cd to /.
 Then, under linux run:
 tar -zcvf all_archive.tgz www
 
 z - gzip compression
 c - create archive
 v - verbose
 f - archive name
 
 the '-' is optional, and is there for backwards compatablility. Simple as
 that. If you are on a Unix system (Solaris) or have an older version of
 tar you can run:
 
 tar xvf all_archive.tar www
 gzip all_archive.tar
 
 It will create a file called all_archive.tar.gz
 
 That's all folks :)
 
 -- philip
 
 
 
 Hi, I've tried looking at the tar man page, but still cant get any joy with
 tar.
 
 I have a directory called archive, with numerous subdirectories. I want to
 save all these files as a single file called all_archive, while preserving
 the dirctory structure and permissions, and then finally compress the whole
 thing. Can some one show me the correct command please
 
 Thanks
 
 Barry
 
 
 
 
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[newbie] tar help please

[Barry Winch]

Hi, I've tried looking at the tar man page, but still cant get any joy with
tar.

I have a directory called archive, with numerous subdirectories. I want to
save all these files as a single file called all_archive, while preserving
the dirctory structure and permissions, and then finally compress the whole
thing. Can some one show me the correct command please

Thanks

Barry

Re: [newbie] tar help please

[Philip Gabbert]

Quite simple .. Tar is an app that gets many people. Got me to until I 
finally figured it out :)

Say you want to tar and zip up /www/ .. All you have to do is cd to /. 
Then, under linux run: 
tar -zcvf all_archive.tgz www

z - gzip compression
c - create archive
v - verbose
f - archive name

the '-' is optional, and is there for backwards compatablility. Simple as 
that. If you are on a Unix system (Solaris) or have an older version of 
tar you can run: 

tar xvf all_archive.tar www
gzip all_archive.tar

It will create a file called all_archive.tar.gz 

That's all folks :)

-- philip



Hi, I've tried looking at the tar man page, but still cant get any joy with
tar.

I have a directory called archive, with numerous subdirectories. I want to
save all these files as a single file called all_archive, while preserving
the dirctory structure and permissions, and then finally compress the whole
thing. Can some one show me the correct command please

Thanks

Barry





Eagles may soar, but weasel don't get sucked into jet engines

Re: [newbie] tar help please

[Paul]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Barry Winch wrote:

Hi, I've tried looking at the tar man page, but still cant get any joy with
tar.

I have a directory called archive, with numerous subdirectories. I want to
save all these files as a single file called all_archive, while preserving
the dirctory structure and permissions, and then finally compress the whole
thing. Can some one show me the correct command please

tar cvz /dir/all_archive /dir_to_backup

The z in the parameters will immediately do the compressing for you

Paul

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