On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 18:56 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:41, John Meyer wrote:
Here is what I am trying:
cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar
I'm no expert on tar but what you are trying never looked right to me.
Just where is this Pictures? a directory off your home directory??
I would think Pictures/* would be the thing to use..
According to man page the list can be directories. I tested it further, it still works for me. So, that doesn't seem to be the issue I guess: toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> ls -l total 172 <snip> drwxr-xr-x 4 toshi users 4096 2007-01-21 16:15 Misc drwxr-xr-x 2 toshi users 4096 2007-01-21 16:15 test <snip> toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> ls -l test total 172 -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 04092005.jpg toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> tar cvf test.tar test test/ test/04092005.jpg toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> tar tvf test.tar drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:26:12 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 test/04092005.jpg toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> cp Misc/add1.jpg test/. toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> ls -l test total 348 -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13 04092005.jpg -rwxr--r-- 1 toshi users 171936 2007-01-21 16:27 add1.jpg toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> tar uvf test.tar test test/ test/add1.jpg toshi@suse-102:~/Documents> tar tvf test.tar drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:26:12 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2005-04-09 19:13:23 test/04092005.jpg drwxr-xr-x toshi/users 0 2007-01-21 16:27:21 test/ -rwxr--r-- toshi/users 171936 2007-01-21 16:27:21 test/add1.jpg Toshi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org