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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Archiving and move files in the same time Post 302225964 by Vi-Curious on Sunday 17th of August 2008 11:49:58 PM
Old 08-18-2008
How about if you try

Code:
 
gtar -czf backup.tar.gz blah/*

Nb: But the files are not moved. The archive will have a copy of the files but they will still exist in /home/blah/...

Last edited by Vi-Curious; 08-18-2008 at 12:52 AM.. Reason: Add comment
 

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jlha-utils(1)						      General Commands Manual						     jlha-utils(1)

NAME
jlha -- lzh decompressor/compressor SYNOPSIS
jlha [[-]{axelvudmcp[q[num]][vnfodizg012]}[w=<dir>]] [archive_file] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the jlha commands. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original pro- gram does not have a manual page. jlha is a program extracts or creates LZH archive files. COMMANDS AND OPTIONS
commands: a Add files to archive xe EXtract files from archive l List files from archive v Verbose list files from archive u Update files to archive d Delete files from archive m Move files to archive c Create archive p Print archive to stdout t Test the integrity of an archive options: q quiet output v verbose output f force overwrite existing files t FILES are TEXT files o[567] Change LHA compression algorithm w=<dir> specify working directory. only works for (e/x) d delete files after executing commands. only works for (a/u/c) i ignore path. only works for (e/x) z do not compress files (a/u) 0/1/2 change header level (a/u) e convert text file encoding from/to EUC-JP y convert filename from Shift-JIS AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). This man- ual page is in public domain and is freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by any- one for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived. jlha-utils(1)
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