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Summary: To tar a computer directory, go to the command line, do a directory listing and enter the appropriate commands. Tar a directory with tips from a software developer in this free video about computer technology.
Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more
"Hi. My name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to tar a directory. Let's go to our command line. And do a directory listing. These are the list of files that are in a directory that I'm currently in. The ones in blue are directories. Let's say I want to add the public folder to our tar file. To tar up the public folder, just say tar then a space dash cf for create. Now let's give it a name, public.tar and then a space and type the name of the folder that you're going to tar. Press enter to execute the command. If I do another directory listing, I'll see I now have a public.tar file in red in addition to my public folder. That tar file is basically a zip of the public folder. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to tar a directory."
eHow Article: How to Tar a Directory
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