Tar troubles

adler321 · 10-25-2004, 02:10 PM

Hi,
Does anyone know how to tell tar to include empty directories?
The trouble is that tar omitts a directory altogether if it is empty.

Is there any good third-party utility/software (free or not free) that will backup the empty directories as well?

Thanks for any thoughts!

emathias · 10-25-2004, 03:15 PM

It´s just include the option -f to the tar command (for mantaining folders structure).

e.g. :

%tar -cf outfile.tar empty_folder ... (just for concatenating it)

or

%tar -czf outfile.tar.gz empty_folder ... (for concatenating an zip it)