From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 17:36:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB0437B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.3.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0EE43E42 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raiden@shell.core.com) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.12.3/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g6R0atr8019967; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:36:55 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g6R0atl00719; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:36:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:36:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Steven Lake , Subject: Re: Tar and RM In-Reply-To: <200207262354.g6QNsQ121028@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > tar cf /some/place/with/room/mydir.tar /usr/local/dir_to_tar > > Will tar up everything in /usr/local/dir_to_tar and make > a tarfile called mydir.tar in /some/place/with/room/ > All file names will have full paths within your current when you > untar them later > as in /usr/local/dir_to_tar/coolpic.jpg Cool. So if I understand this correctly, it will also grab things like /usr/local/dir_to_tar/some_subdir/another_subdir/somefile.jpg? Or will it only get stuff in ./dir_to_tar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message