Re: [TCLUG:18702] SQOTD (simple Q. of the day)

[David Wood <jbevren@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> 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?

tar zcvf file.tar.gz filelist

filelist can be directory/* in which case it'll recurse and file everything

-David