Re: Tar

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Pete Poff <ppoff01@mail.coin.missouri.edu> writes:
PP> I've got a bunch of files and dirs in one dir that I would like to
PP> use tar to make it into one file.  Could someone tell me how?  I
PP> know that tar -xvf will decompress it, I just don't know how to
PP> make one.

SUGGESTION: man tar
HINT: tar cvzf file.tar.gz .

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