Re: [TCLUG:18702] SQOTD (simple Q. of the day)

[<andy@theasis.com>]

> So, what would I type to archive a users's entire home directory into a
> tar.gz?

tar -zcf username-archive.tgz /home/username

where "username-archive.tgz" is the name of the archive you want to create
(you could specify a complete path, e.g., /tmp/andy-archive.tgz),
"/home/username" would actually be the path to the directory containing
that user's home directory (assuming you want to package up his/her entire
directory.

Gnu tar lets you tar and compress in one command, so the option -z says to
gzip it. The -c to create the archive, and -f tells it that you're passing
the name of the file you want to create as the first argument.

Hope that does the job for you.

Andy

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