Re: [TCLUG:5185] making tarballs

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On  8 Apr, Tim Wilson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to make a tarball of an entire website that I've been working
> on, but I can't get the correct options set. I've read the man page, but
> I'm still missing something. So, let's say you've got a directory full of
> files and a number of subdirectories. What command would you use to create
> a tarball and gzip it? Thanks.
> 
cd directory previous to which you want to tar up
tar -czf filename.tar.gz directory you want to tar
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Jon Schewe
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