How to tar a directory?
Friday, May 21st, 2010I 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: