RE: [cobalt-users] Backing up with tar and gzip

["agility" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here I go:
>
> How can I create a file.tar.gz without seeing all the content of the
> file that is being created on the shell?
>
> I mean, I don?t want to see this
>
> 7¶Å!ò0@,%GJÂ<ë¹z £
>            z4('X-Ù¥,ÌÆ8dahHîÂ
>                               ±a=eól/ÌAÐ                       ZBF^
>            ÈFõ9­&c{qØGa!¡[@8·óMé%ü`eh»0ãè'ÐíÉEQü!Pàæ0ßùþe,ÀÅæFE
>            ´íuE2Ø ê~cXz°¡$^ð¤hÄ,@?(ÂÑ0÷¢ç±ÙôvÒ
>
> that was the output of the next command
>
> tar -cvf backupfile.tar dir
>
>
> I don?t want to see all that, there is any way?
take a look at #tar --help
you'll see that the v stands for verbose,
-v, --verbose         verbosely list files processed

So the command would be something like...

tar -cf backupufile.tar somedir


Paul ASI

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