From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:26:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090501082655.0056980f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FA433F.8040407@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see
> it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end.
Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and
that's why it refused to make an empty archive. Since -C chnges to the
directory you want to backup, you use . to tell it to backup the (now)
current directory.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-01 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 19:44 [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball Dale
2009-04-30 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-30 21:53 ` Dale
2009-04-30 22:18 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-30 22:41 ` Dale
2009-04-30 23:14 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-30 23:24 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-01 9:23 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-05-01 9:30 ` Dale
2009-05-01 0:33 ` Dale
2009-05-01 7:26 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-05-01 8:04 ` Dale
2009-05-01 8:22 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-05-01 8:33 ` Dale
2009-05-01 8:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-01 9:12 ` Dale
2009-04-30 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-04-30 22:45 ` Dale
2009-05-01 0:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-01 9:26 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-05-01 9:36 ` Stroller
2009-05-01 10:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-05-01 8:01 ` Daniel Troeder
2009-05-01 8:32 ` Dale
2009-05-01 9:25 ` Stroller
2009-05-01 9:38 ` Dale
2009-05-01 13:12 ` Stroller
2009-05-01 18:33 ` Dale
2009-05-02 2:00 ` Stroller
2009-05-02 2:33 ` Dale
2009-05-02 2:55 ` Dale
2009-05-02 12:11 ` Stroller
2009-05-02 14:28 ` Dale
2009-05-02 15:18 ` Dale
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