On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 18:56 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:41, John Meyer wrote: > > Here is what I am trying: > > > > cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures > > gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar > > > > I'm no expert on tar but what you are trying never looked right to me. > > Just where is this Pictures? a directory off your home directory?? > > I would think Pictures/* would be the thing to use.. > According to man page the list can be directories. I tested it further, it still works for me. So, that doesn't seem to be the issue I guess: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> ls -l total 172 <snip> drwxr-xr-x 4 toshi users 4096 2007-01-21 16:15 Misc drwxr-xr-x 2 toshi users 4096 2007-01-21 16:15 test <snip> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> ls -l test total 172 -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 04092005.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> tar cvf test.tar test test/ test/04092005.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> tar tvf test.tar drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:26:12 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 test/04092005.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> cp Misc/add1.jpg test/. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> ls -l test total 348 -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 04092005.jpg -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2007-01-21 16:27 add1.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> tar uvf test.tar test test/ test/add1.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents> tar tvf test.tar drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:26:12 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 test/04092005.jpg drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:27:21 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2007-01-21 16:27:21 test/add1.jpg
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