[Techtalk] How do I Tarball with spaces in filenames and dirs?

TechChiq techchiq at hotpop.com
Mon Oct 20 12:56:50 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 22:49, perimorph wrote:

> > > tar -cRvf /home/ashleigh/test.tar my_stuff
> ummmm..  "show record number within archive with each message" says the
> man page..  i was _seriously_ half-asleep or more when i wrote that. 
> ^^;  there's no reason you'd need to use that.

:) That's ok. I have been foggy-headed for the past week staying up all
night learning all this stuff. LOL!

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