Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:41:44 +0200 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tar question Message-ID: <200309031341.44678.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <003101c3720d$a43d54d0$04fea8c0@moe> References: <003101c3720d$a43d54d0$04fea8c0@moe>
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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 13:22, Charles Howse wrote: > I'm a little confused about the arguments for tar. > I want to tar the contents of a directory and save that .tgz file for > backup purposes. > > Problem is, when I copy larry.tgz to /disk2 and: > Tar xvfz larry.tgz > It creates the /disk2 file structure within /disk2. > > # cd > # ls /disk2 > # freebsd larry (directories) > # tar cvfz larry.tgz /disk2 > # cp larry.tgz /disk2 > # cd /disk2 > # tar xvfz larry.tgz > # ls > # freebsd larry disk2 (directories) > > How can I make tar not create the directory structure within the same > directory? > Does that make sense? What about : cd /disk2 tar -cvfz larry.tgz * grtz, Daan
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