At Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:54:03 +1100, Alister Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a folder with some rather large files eg 300MB + > > I want to be able to tar up the whole folder so that I can burn them onto CD > and put them onto another system. (in another city). > > I have read up a bit on the tar command and think that this should do the > trick. > > tar cvfk files.tar 600000 RRBKGS* > > I get the following error > > [root@mail murr]# tar cvfk files.tar 600000 * > tar: You may not specify more than one `-Acdtrux' option >
tar cvfk files.tar 600000 RRBKGS* is the same as: tar -c -v -f -k files.tar 600000 RRBKGS* "files.tar" is an argument to the "-f" option, thus they need to be next to each other. this is confusing the argument parsing and giving you that error. it probably thinks you're doing: tar -c -v -f k -f i -l etc.. i'm not sure what you think the -k option does, but (tar version 1.13.25): -k, --keep-old-files don't replace existing files when extracting probably isn't going to make a difference when creating an archive. i don't know what you think the 600000 is for - probably something to do with -k. i presume RRBKGS* is a shell glob that matches the files you want to put in the archive.. so. what you wanted is: tar cvf files.tar RRBKGS* the filename has to go next to the "f". and if you have other options, then you can give them as such: tar cvf files.tar -k 600000 RRBKGS* but don't do that, because GNU tar doesn't treat -k the way you think. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
