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Old 05-02-2006
gilmord gilmord is offline
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I would personally never tar anything up with an 'absolute' file name as you'll never know whether you'll have permission to untar it/whether you'll overwrite someone's much needed directory.

I would do the following from directory1:
tar cvf home_directory/new_tar.tar *