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tar the directories

gany59 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:42:47 GMT

Hi Guru's

I need to compress the directories in the name of p2xtmp using the tar command ,under the /tmp file system.

so for this the below command is exact or not.

tar -cvf p2xtmp* p2xtmp.tar

Pls let me know..

Thanks in adcance !!!!!!!!!!1

Re: tar the directories

Jupinder Bedi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:48:25 GMT

it should be like this

tar -cvf p2xtmp.tar p2xtmp*

Good Luck

Re: tar the directories

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:49:22 GMT

Hi:

The 'tar' utility doesn't compress and the arguments are backwards. You could do:

# tar -cvf p2xtmp.tar p2xtmp*
# gzip p2xtmp.tar

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: tar the directories

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:57:25 GMT

Shalom,

You command will not work, but I recommend specifying the full path of the tar file

tar

SEP

Re: tar the directories

Steven Schweda — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:50:55 GMT

> # tar -cvf p2xtmp.tar p2xtmp*
> # gzip p2xtmp.tar

Or, without the intermediate ".tar" file:

tar -cf - p2xtmp* | gzip > p2xtmp.tgz