tar the directories

[gany59]

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

[Jupinder Bedi]

it should be like this

tar -cvf p2xtmp.tar p2xtmp*


Good Luck

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

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

tar

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[Steven Schweda]

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

Or, without the intermediate ".tar" file:

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