> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Allan Bruce wrote: > >> How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile? >> I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. >> That teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!! > > tar -cf tarfile.tar directory > > -- > Miah Gregory > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Some versions of tar don't like a trailing slash on the directory name. i.e. in some cases tar -cf tarfile.tar directory will work but tar -cf tarfile.tar directory/ won't. I assume Allan is still using Solaris, which I have seen this "feature" on. This could be the problem, especially so when autocomplete helpfully adds a trailing slash on for you. Might be relevant. Thanks, Allan _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
