question about archive and unarchive using tar command

Hi, I am able to add -C option to extract file to a specific directory. However, is it possible to archive file or folder to a specific directory like decompressing? Please help, thank you!
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If I understand what you are saying, just give the file name with a path when creating it
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@coop said:
If I understand what you are saying, just give the file name with a path when creating itIsn't your way just archive the file to the current directory not a specific directory? What I am trying to do achieve is that saying I am under the default directory(home directory), and I want to archive whatever in the folder /media/sample to a specific folder for example /tmp/backup. Is this possible?
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Hi @ariesjamie ,
What I am trying to do achieve is that saying I am under the default directory(home directory), and I want to archive whatever in the folder /media/sample to a specific folder for example /tmp/backup. Is this possible?
Of course that's possible. Take a look to the following example:
pwd
/home/luis
(That means I'm at my home directory)tar -cf /tmp/backup.tar /opt
That will create a tar file of /opt and will save the result file to /tmp/backup.tar .
If you want to bzip2 it, you can do the following command:
tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /opt
And you can check on the file creation by doing 'ls -l /tmp'.
Regards,
Luis.0 -
@luisviveropena said:
Hi @ariesjamie ,What I am trying to do achieve is that saying I am under the default directory(home directory), and I want to archive whatever in the folder /media/sample to a specific folder for example /tmp/backup. Is this possible?
Of course that's possible. Take a look to the following example:
pwd
/home/luis
(That means I'm at my home directory)tar -cf /tmp/backup.tar /opt
That will create a tar file of /opt and will save the result file to /tmp/backup.tar .
If you want to bzip2 it, you can do the following command:
tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /opt
And you can check on the file creation by doing 'ls -l /tmp'.
Regards,
Luis.Oh, I see, thank you Luis for the example. All clear now!
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It's a pleasure, Jamie!
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