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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

tar: Removing leading '/' from member names

To eliminate this message while creating an archive file with tar use the following syntax:

> tar cj -C / var/www > backup.tar.bz2

instead of

> tar cjf backup.tar.bz2 /var/www
Posted by A.Drey at 11:30:00 AM
Labels: linux, notes, tips

1 comment:

Tim said...

or alternatively,
tar -cjf backup.tar.bz2 -C / var/www

August 2, 2008 at 1:07 AM

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