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Started by Prog, Jun 18 2007 02:12 PM

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Prog
Posted 18 June 2007 - 02:12 PM

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How do I tar an entire directory?

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Posted 19 June 2007 - 02:55 PM

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Here is the command:

tar -cvf mytarfile.tar mydir/

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Posted 19 June 2007 - 03:12 PM

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Ok, I've got that - now how do I add gzip compression to the tar so I don't have to manually do a gzip command?

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 09:37 AM

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Just add a z to the list:

tar -zcvf mytarfile.tar.gz mydir/

and to untar:
tar -zxvf mytarfile.tar.gz
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