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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:07:30 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        Andre Cameron <camcom@optonline.net>, free bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tar question
Message-ID:  <20010925010730.71844D4@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <03fc01c1455d$9e11db50$4dd92d18@andre2pj3ipvtr>
References:  <03fc01c1455d$9e11db50$4dd92d18@andre2pj3ipvtr>

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On Monday 24 September 2001 05:01 pm, Andre Cameron wrote:
> If I wanted to tar a whole directory and it subdirectories/files for
> download what is the command/switches I would use?

tar cvf directory.tar directory

or to make a tarball:

tar czvf directory.tgz directory

Beech
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