On 2020-06-15 19:17, Thomas Pircher wrote:
mick crane wrote:
I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ?
Tar accepts 3 styles of options. The style with a single dash is called
the 'UNIX' or 'short-option' style in the man page.
"tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive"
doesn't work.
The `-f` option requires an argument, the tar file, so with your
command, tar would create an output file called 'vz'. The rest of the
command line is considered a list of files and directories to include
in
the archive. Tar fails because the input file archive_file.tgz does not
exist.
Try `tar -cvzf archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive`.
Thomas
yes I see that now
but without hyphen "f" can be anywhere
mick
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