Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> I *think* what I want to do is this.
> 
> star -cv /some/dir
> 
> then
> 
> tar xvf someDir.tar
> 
> Only I wrote my script for back ups *months* ago. and there I'm s/tar
> ing a /dev. So any suggestions would be more than welcome.

ok... you are doing something COMPLETELY different than I though
<grumble... grumble... damned acronyms...> ;-)

KAssuming that you are using GNU tar, you might download the source and
look at some of the scripts, examples, and tools therin...  As I recall
there were some example backup scripts for automation.

  EBo --


> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:50, John (EBo) David wrote:
> > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if I tar a directory up with star if i can then untar
> > > it with tar?
> >
> > if I understand you correctly, yes, but to make sure we are all on the
> > same page could you post as close to exactly the command line arguments
> > are?