tar -czvf myarchive.tar.gz -C "~/Pictures/calibration images" ./*

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Galaxy S10+

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 12:25 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$ tar -cf PIC03442.ARW
> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
> Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
> michael@MyNUC:~/Pictures/calibration images$
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:16 PM Joe Taylor via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > just use gzip
> > #foo gzip my file
> >
> > to to unzip
> >
> > #foo gunzip ./myfile.zip
> >
> > you want to tar it first do it
> > f
> > rom a old Solaris admin
> > Joe
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