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

TechChiq techchiq at hotpop.com
Sun Oct 19 21:48:06 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 03:35, perimorph wrote:
> tar -cRvf /home/ashleigh/test.tar my_stuff

Thanks for the extra info. :) I posted my other solution and it was
slightly different. I'll have to review what the 'R' means as it's one
option I didn't use but it worked anyway (lucky me :)

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