Re: [tlug] Using tar to archive files

[Curt Sampson <cjs@??>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Dave M G wrote:

> > tar -cvzf archive.tgz -C directory . --exclude directory/subdir
>
> That puts all the files inside the archive underneath a directory named ".".

Which should be fine; "." means the current directory. However, if you
really want to get rid of that, you could try

    (cd /someplace; tar -cvzf /somewhere-else/archive.tgz .* *)

> It looks to me like the default behavior is for empty directories to not be 
> included in the archive. When I create an archive then view it with the 
> Archive Manager application, they don't seem to be there.

I've never seen a tar that doesn't store the empty directories. Are you
sure it's not your archive manager that's not displaying them? What does
"tar tvzf archive.tgz" say?

cjs
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