On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:41 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > Here is what I am trying: > > cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures > gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar > > And here's the error: > tar: Pictures: Cannot open: Is a directory > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > I guess the other will work just as well, but it still seems a waste of > processor time. > > Please do not top post.
Since you are running this from the command line there is no need for cd $HOME just use cd (the cd command by it self takes you to your home (login) directory) gunzip backups/Pictures.tar.gz tar uf backups/Pictures.tar Pictures gzip -9 backups/Pictures.tar ( the -9 means to use maximum compression) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
