how to compresse files with tar ?

[haux]

How to compress all my files in /home/kerbachi to an archive kerbachi.tar.gz ?
please i am a newbie with Linux

Thanks for all

 

[piti]

hi
i would use this command

tar -czf kerbachi.tar.gz /home/kerbachi/

if you do not want some file to be included in the archive add --exclude filename to the command

 

[haux]

I had done :
tar -czf kerbachi.tar.gz /home/kerbachi/

in the directory /et/httpd/conf/

I got this message :
tar : Remouving leading '/' from member names

and the file is in the directory /etc/httpd/conf/ and not in the expected directory /home/kerbachi/ !!!

Thanks for all

 

[piti]

the file is created in that directory where you run the command, if you want the file to be created in /home/kerbachi just do
tar -czf /home/kerbachi/kerbachi.tar.gz /home/kerbachi/