Re: Compressing folders/sub-folders with TAR : how to ?

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:55:12 -0500

On 26 Jan 2005 06:57:56 -0800, A Web Master
  <forum_posting@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What's the syntax to compress all folders and sub-folders found with TAR ?

tar czf file.tar.gz .
if you use GNU tar 

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