[linux-help] Re: Two questions

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I have two questions regarding a project I am working on, that I started
> and founded.
> 
> First, I want to zip up all of my files in a *.tar.gz file, how do I do
> this?
> 
> Secondly, how do I make RPM files of my finished program, and where are
> the necessary utilities, if any, for Red Hat 6.1?

I can't help you with rpm, but here's a simple instruction to make a
gzipped tarfile, you use the command:

$ tar czf my-tar-file.tar.gz dir-to-backup

The "c" tells tar to create an archive, the "z" says do gzip compression on it,
the "f" says the next parameter on the commandline is the filename and the
second real parameter is the file specification to back up.

For more options, read the manpage for tar.

Greg


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