Re: using tar

To: mick.crane@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: using tar
From: Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:23:01 -0500
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 13:02 mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:

I think my memory has packed up.
I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ?
"tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive"

You do for modern use, but the 'f' has to be the last arg in that incantation.

-Tom

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