Simple Question About Tar

[Andrew Kaplan]

I'm almost too embarrased to ask this:

What is the correct syntax if I want to tar the contents of the directory, subdirectories and all, that I am currently in and create the tar file in another directory?

[Michael Schulte zur Sur · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew,

that would be

tar cvf /path/to/archive .

Michael

[Patrick Wallek]

# tar -cvf /destination/dir/tarfile_name.tar .

Note the space between the tarfile_name.tar and the last .

The last . tells tar to take everything in the current directory.

[Graham Cameron_1]

tar cvf PATHTOYOURTARFILE .
eg
tar cvf /tmp/my.tar .

-- Graham

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# tar -cvf /dir/test.tar .

Regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Andrew Kaplan]

Thanks guys...Sorry to bother you about this.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi Andrew,

not for this. Thanks for the ten points!!

Michael