thank you so much for the help On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:05 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > You're doing it a bit backward, name the file to be created, then the files to be added to archive. > > [user@home]$ tar -czfv file.tar.gz PIC03442.ARW > [user@home]$ file file.tar.gz > file.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 1464320 > [user@home]$ 7z l file.tar.gz > > 7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 > p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,8 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (906E9),ASM,AES-NI) > > Scanning the drive for archives: > 1 file, 1358768 bytes (1327 KiB) > > Listing archive: file.tar.gz > -- > Path = file.tar.gz > Type = gzip > Headers Size = 10 > > Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name > ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ > ..... 1464320 1358768 file.tar > ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ > 1464320 1358768 1 files > > -mb > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 10:09 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> >> I need to create a gzip file. >> This is what I've done: >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar -czf PIC03442.ARW >> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive >> Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information. >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar --usage >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar -cf PIC03442.ARW -z >> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive >> Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information. >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ man tar >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar -c -fz PIC03442.ARW >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ ls >> PIC03441.ARW PIC03441.JPG PIC03442.ARW PIC03442.JPG z >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ rm z >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar -c -zf PIC03442.ARW >> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive >> Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information. >> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ >> >> it is tar .... what! >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss