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Author: Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
CC: Michael Butash
New-Topics: start zoom from command line
Subject: Re: tar
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


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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 <create>.... what!
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