How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile?
I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. That
teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!!
Thanks
Allan
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Allan Bruce wrote:
How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile?
I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. That
teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!!
tar -cf tarfile.tar directory
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tar -cvf foo.tar foo_dir
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You may want to tar -cvpf foo.tar path/to/directory/
where c creates an empty tar
v tells you what its doing
p preserves permissions
f creates a file
you can also pipe it into stuff for example
tar -cvpf - /var |gzip|ssh
hth
David
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:40, Allan Whiteford wrote:
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