Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:21:05 -0600 From: "default013" <default013@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: question about tarfiles Message-ID: <OE50OnYsDCScndAx7Fq00002345@hotmail.com>
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Hi, A couple of days ago, someone broke into one of our systems at work, leaving a bunch of very volitile scripts around. I isolated the scripts and tarred them up so that I could later take a look at them and see exactly what they were for. I was downloading them to another computer the to look at the other day, and had mis-typed in this command: tar cvfg tarfile.tar.gz tarfilecd ad* I had fallen asleep while downloading the scripts, and was planning to make a new tarfile when I finished, but I had accidentally typed 'g' instead of 'z' in the options. Then I woke up later, had forgotten that I had entered that and was planning to cd to a directory... My best guess, is that this ran an incremental backup of all files in any directory named ad. The output was like this: /home/user/subdirectory/file FILE IS NEW This also created the tarfile named tarfile.tar.gz. Could anyone tell me what this did? I'm a little afraid I may have messed something up... Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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