recursive tar?

[parkers]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to manipulate the tar command to create a tar file recusively including all files and sub-directories from a given point ??

Thanks ...

 

[dickiebird]

cd to your given point and tar -cf yourtarfile *

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[PHV]

Dickie Bird,
> cd to your given point and tar -cf yourtarfile *
I would replace * by . in order to get all files.