From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> >> That's "tar cjf images.tar.bz2 images/" to create compressed tarballs >> of everything in the images/ dir. Replace "tar cjf" with "tar xjf" >> to uncompress. > I want to keep the original files I'm going to compress.
tar as invoked with c above won't delete or change the files it's turning into a compressed tarball. > the man file it looks as if I should use the option '--backup'. Not really. > or should I just copy the directories I want to archive? Unnecessary. Try creating a tarball on a dir with some files you don't care about and see. > when I append these files from the top level directory will it append > the files under it as well? Appending files to a compressed tar file probably won't do what you want. Remember that tar was originally a TapeARchiver , and tapes aren't seekable in the way disks are, and the way it works makes a bit more sense. If you want to make a compressed archive and change it often, zip would probably be easier than tar. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
