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Old 07-11-2002
Hordak Hordak is offline
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Tar

Okay, I am trying to apply a hotfix to my machine. I need to make a backup of my /bin, /lib, and /root directory. What is the command line I need to run to create a tar file for each directory, which contains everything in each directory.
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