From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 4 18:10:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA00683 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 18:10:42 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA00678 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 18:10:39 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id UAA06127; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 20:56:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 20:56:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: taring files To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511042001.UAA26134@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Blair Schmittel wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to tar a few subdirectories for weeks. It just won't work. > > What I am trying to do is tar the subdirectory of /etc/raddb into a radius.tar file. The device is /dev/wd0a. Can anybody show me the command syntax. tar cvf radius.tar /etc/raddb c--create a tar file v--verbose, print the name of each file as it is added to the tar file f--use this filename 'radius.tar' rather then the default file radius.tar--name of the tar file /etc/raddb--files to be tar'red up jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346