SQOTD (simple Q. of the day)

[Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>]

Hey everyone,

I've got a couple kids would did some C++ programming on my Linux server
this spring. Now they'd like to take all of their files home with them. I
want to tar and gzip them, but I can't get the tar command options right.
('man tar' didn't help any) My last effort resulting in many pages of
garbage popping out of laser
printer.

So, what would I type to archive a users's entire home directory into a
tar.gz?

-Tim

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