Re: how to zip/compress a directory?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com> wrote:
>nope. it won't work..
>
>[guest@cslab share]$ tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps
>pixmaps/
>tar (child): pixmaps.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied
>tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>pixmaps/3D-Gun.xpm
>pixmaps/Ant.xpm
>Broken pipe
>[guest@cslab share]$
>is that permission problems

You do need to be able to write to the directory where you're trying to
store the compressed file. Like the other respondent said, put it in
your home directory.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]