asked on 7/19/2008

How to Tar folder contents

Hi all,

I am a total noob to this so bear with me please.

What I would like to do is to tar a folder's contents to newfolder.tar

But I wont want to tar the folder also.

For example,

Using normal zip I would zip folder1 to folder1.zip
WHen extracting I would also have folder1 in theextraction and then inside that folder the contents.

I would need to just tar the contents of folder1 and not folder1 itself.

Could you explain to me the tar command to do this, and then the tar command to untar this.

Thanks in advance experts,

Kevin

Linux

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oconnork00

7/23/2008

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oconnork00

7/20/2008

ASKER

If I had a folder in c:\docs and inside that folderwere two files, file1.doc and file2.doc

I want to tar these two doc files together as one tar so that when I untar them later the two files will just tar to the c:\ (for example) or the root.

Will the command you gave do this?

Thanks,

Kevin

WizRd-Linux

7/20/2008

yes it definately will. If you specifically wanted to just tar up specific files with the same extension, change * on the compression line to *.doc or similar.

One the uncompression, instead of . you can replace this with a specific folder.

Ibrahim Bazarwala

7/20/2008

Similar question was asked here and I answerd
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23553006/Create-Tar-Ball.html

oconnork00

7/23/2008

ASKER

Thanks, just what I needed.