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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!tezcat!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.crocker.com!not-for-mail From: schlegel@crocker.com (Mark Schlegel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: simple question about tar Date: 20 Feb 1997 17:23:05 GMT Organization: Crocker Communications (413) 585-5164 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5ei19p$2jc$1@news.crocker.com> References: <330BCCCA.2A16@gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rmc1.crocker.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35934 Bill Wilson (atijapan@gol.com) wrote: : Hello. : : I have an exteamly simple question about taring files on freeBSD. How : can I tar everything within a directory, including files subdirectories, : files within subdirectories, etc. : : With bsdi it's simply tar -cvf /public_html, but I am getting "can't : open directory" errors with the same command in freebsd. : : Thanks, and appologies for the level of this question. : Bill Wilson no problem Bill, what I think is happening is that in some unix's what you have means, "tar the directory public_html that's in the root directory" and since I"m pretty sure your public_html is not in the root, your problem is the "/" ie, the "/" should only lead the directory name in the single case of the root directory, in all others just say: tar -cvf public_html is what you really want Mark ps. note I'm assuming the directory that you want to get that 'contains' everything you want to tar is public_html