Create tarball in from a different directory

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Let say you are in a  destination directory but the source are in a different directory.

To create a tarball, just issue this command below,


$> PWD
 /Users/user/Desktop/
$> tar -cvzf mytarball.gz -C ~/different/source/base-directory TheDirectoryToTarBall



What it means is that, it'll create the tarball mytarball.gz into present working directory which is /Users/user/Desktop which the directory going to tar is TheDirectoryToTarBall with its location is in ~/different/source/base-directory, i.e. ~/different/source/base-directory/TheDirectoryToTarBall. Take note that after the path "...base-directory" is a space before the directory named "TheDirectoryToTarBall".

If you want to tar a file, just replace the position of your file to the position where "TheDirectoryToTarBall" is placed.

Hope that helps.

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