Comments on: Create a TAR Archive of a Directory

By: Quinn

Quinn — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:26:07 +0000

Cheryl,

Just add an n option to the command.. so

tar cnf archive.tar *

will grab just the files matching * and will not recursively dig into subdirectories.

Cheryl Bates — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:25:24 +0000

How do I copy (using the tar command) all the files in a directory to tape without copying the sub directories. I just want the files.

Thanks,
Cheryl

Janak — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:04:18 +0000

thanks for the simple tip but very useful

guest — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:33:00 +0000

Jhnmrtnpaolo, you may also use -C option to type a directory you want to save the unarchived files to:
tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz -C /directory_to_save

Guest — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:26:00 +0000

Jhnmrtnpaolo,
Use this command: tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

Jhnmrtnpaolo — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:43:00 +0000

how to unarchive in unix,if the file is named a archive.tar.gz . . . . using a cat,gzip, tar. on one command line

Giacomo Arru — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:19:00 +0000

thank you – my memory it’s going cracked

just entered tar jcf filename.tar.bz2 /tmp

dan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Thanks for saving my time with this posting.