I need to compress entire folders so I can backup to a CD. What should I use? Bzip and tar don't appear to have the ability to do this. I am going to do a complete fresh install with version 8.0, and want to save a lot of data. TIA Harry G
* Harry G (harrycg@earthlink.net) [020529 09:43]:
Bzip and tar don't appear to have the ability to do this. I am going to do a complete fresh install with version 8.0, and want to save a lot of data.
Of course they do. tar cpzf backup.tar.gz some_directory/ -- -ckm
Sorry. Didn't find that option in the man page. Thanks! Harry G On Wednesday May 29 2002 12:51 pm, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Harry G (harrycg@earthlink.net) [020529 09:43]:
Bzip and tar don't appear to have the ability to do this. I am going to do a complete fresh install with version 8.0, and want to save a lot of data.
Of course they do. tar cpzf backup.tar.gz some_directory/
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:14, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
The man page for tar has been useless for years...the info page is much better.
From the tar man page: "BUGS The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system. If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs." For me one of the biggest obstacle in using Linux was reading the man pages... Now it's my best friend, but I've never got to like info pages, isn't there any project going on to convert the information in the info doc. to man pages? Regards Jónas
Actually, I never new info existed. It is MUCH better than man pages! Thanks so much! Harry G PS: OK, everyone. Stop laughing at me! On Wednesday May 29 2002 06:05 pm, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:14, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
The man page for tar has been useless for years...the info page is much better.
From the tar man page:
"BUGS The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system.
If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs."
For me one of the biggest obstacle in using Linux was reading the man pages... Now it's my best friend, but I've never got to like info pages, isn't there any project going on to convert the information in the info doc. to man pages?
Regards Jónas
* Harry G
Actually, I never new info existed. It is MUCH better than man pages! Thanks so much!
May i suggest the 'pinfo' package to read info pages. A really nice program on the commandline with mousesupport etc. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
On donderdag 30 mei 2002 00:05, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
For me one of the biggest obstacle in using Linux was reading the man pages... Now it's my best friend, but I've never got to like info pages, isn't there any project going on to convert the information in the info doc. to man pages?
Use konqueror #man-get to view man pages or ##man-get to view info pages! -- Richard Bos Democracy cost a fortune
Hi, On Thursday 30 May 2002 01:24 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
Use konqueror #man-get to view man pages or ##man-get to view info pages!
I'm with SuSE72, KDE 3.0. I've tried "#man-get ls" and Konq displayed "No man page matching to man-get ls found." (note: viewing info with ##man-get also producing error). Later I found out with "#manpath" resulted 2 paths: /usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1.gz and /usr/share/man/man1/manpath.5.gz. However, trying "#man-get 1 ls" still returned "No man page matching", while "man 1 ls" in CLI successfully displayed the correct man page. Is there any configuration I need to tweak? Regards, Verdi
-- Richard Bos Democracy cost a fortune
Ok, Ima newbie. What's the command to run the info pages? I tried info tar //command not found then I tried man info //returned information about the state of the Tcl interpreter Thanks! Eric On Thursday 30 May 2002 00:05, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:14, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
The man page for tar has been useless for years...the info page is much better.
From the tar man page:
"BUGS The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system.
If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs."
For me one of the biggest obstacle in using Linux was reading the man pages... Now it's my best friend, but I've never got to like info pages, isn't there any project going on to convert the information in the info doc. to man pages?
Regards Jónas
On Thursday 30 May 2002 6:52 am, Eric wrote:
Ok, Ima newbie. What's the command to run the info pages?
I tried info tar //command not found
then I tried
man info //returned information about the state of the Tcl interpreter
Make sure you have installed the package: texinfo You may want to go through the primer once you start up info (Type 'h' inside info). Good luck. Jon
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