Zipping on linux

daniel —Thu, 03/26/2009 - 1:27pm

Usually I use tar.gz files on linux. I create them with
tar -cvzf filenameToCreate.tar.gz dirToZip1 dirToZip2 fileToZip1...

Switch for excluding subdirectories/files today:
tar -cvzf filenameToCreate.tar.gz dirToZip1 dirToZip2 fileToZip1... -exclude pathToFileX

Switch to exclude version control system data - cvs, subversion etc
tar -cvzf filenameToCreate.tar.gz --exclude-vcs dirToZip1 dirToZip2

unzip with:
tar -xvzf filenameToUnzip

which will unzip the file in the current directory

Comments

Submitted by daniel on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:23pm

Remove subversion ( SVN ) directories from a project

daniel —Fri, 08/25/2006 - 10:16pm

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