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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