Re: Making a tarball

> On Mar 16, 2020, at 1:59 PM, arocker@vex.net <arocker@Vex.Net> wrote:
>
>> To make (or unpack) a tarball in general: at the shell prompt
>> man tar
>
> Just to amplify that a bit, with $ representing the shell prompt:
>
> to create a tarball:
> $ tar -cvzf name_of_archive_to_create directory_to_send
>
> That will show you the files in "directory_to_send" being wrapped up. If
> it's only one file at a time, just give the filename. Use a relative path,
> not an absolute one, so you can restore anywhere you want.
>
> To unpack, cd into the directory you want to use, and execute
> $ tar -xzvf name_of_archive_to create
>
> If you don't want to see all the filenames, omit the "v" option. The "f"
> option must be the last thing before the filename.

Thanks.

Per my response to Tony, iOS does not provide a shell natively. There are apps, e.g., iSH, that will do so. And one, i.e., iZip, that may provide an even simpler solution, at least for one whose be away from Vim and Unix for a while.

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