webslave.ws » shell http://www.webslave.ws Web Slave Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:05:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to tar a directory? http://www.webslave.ws/05/how-to-tar-a-directory/ http://www.webslave.ws/05/how-to-tar-a-directory/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 19:59:59 +0000 webslave http://www.webslave.ws/?p=479 I just needed to tar a directory with all files inside of it under Debian 5.

Open shell prompt or putty whatever and write:

tar -cf “files.tar” /path/to/yourfiles

by the way “c” means youre creating a tar file and “f” means you want to use a file name as you pleased.

If you want to update this tar file you can use:

tar -uf “files.tar” /path/to/yourfiles

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