Re: [newbie] tar help please

2000-06-07 Thread Mark Potochnik
Romanator wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, my printer ran out of ink. > I'll have to write this out in long hand. Shake the ink cartridge.. Sometimes it comes back for a while >From a cheapskate. MarkP

Re: [newbie] tar help please

2000-06-06 Thread 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/ .. Al

Re: [newbie] tar help please

2000-06-04 Thread 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 structu

Re: [newbie] tar help please

2000-06-04 Thread 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 -> v

[newbie] tar help please

2000-06-04 Thread 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