Hi,

To tar all files in directory /home/user/thisdir  :

cd /home/user
tar -cvf bigtarball.tar thisdir/*

Hope this helps...

Richie


On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ladislav Popov wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have a question,  I want to compress files in one folder to tar archive,
> but tar wants to specify file not folder to compress. Could you help me
> with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lada
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