tar help

[Thomas Hoyt]

>From: "Gill E. Fuchs" <gefuchs at goedel.uucp>
>Subject: tar help

>suppose i want to tar an entire accound into a tar file named
>GUGU.tar

   Try this:

   Move to the directory above the directory you want to archive.
   Type:
      tar cvf - ./foo  > GUGU.tar

      where foo is the name of the directory you want to archive.

   The "-" tells tar to put the archival output to stdout, not some
   tape drive.

   Good Luck.

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