On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:32 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
What have you tried already so we don't suggest versions of the tar command that have not worked for you?
cd $HOME && tar uzf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar.gz Pictures
Result:
tar: Cannot update compressed archives
cd $HOME && gunzip backups/Pictures.tar.gz && tar uf
$HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures && gzip -9 backups/Pictures.tar
Or if you put all of this into a script file it would look like
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#!/bin/bash
cd /home/