Yes this can be acheive by the tar and gzip command. Look up the man pages for more details but below is a short example.
Code:
This is the dir structure of test, it has sub dirs test1 and test2 and even files underneath.
test/
test/test1/
test/test2/
# you will have to create the archive of the dirs you want by doing this
tar -cvf test.tar test # test.tar is the name you are giving to ur tar file.
# test is the dir. note you can specify multiple dirs by giving a space ex: test1 test 2 ..so on
# once your tar is created, use gzip to compress the tar ball.
gzip test.tar
# if you want to extract the tar you can do so by following :
# gunzip and then extract.
gunzip test.tar.gz /tmp/wherevr # this will un-compress the tar ball.
tar -xvf test.tar /tmp/wherver # this will extract the tar ball with all the sub dirs and files underneath.
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
rmf
rmf(1mh)rmf(1mh)Name
rmf - remove folder
Syntax
rmf [ +folder ] [ -help ] [ -[no]interactive ]
Description
The command removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself. If there are any files within the
folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed.
You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument. If you do not specify a folder, and cannot find the
current folder, asks you whether you want to delete instead.
If the current folder is removed, it makes current.
Note that the command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.
If the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and tells you that this has happened. This
provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list and returning to the current
folder from which the list was extracted.
Using to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder
itself. If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself.
Options-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-interactive
-nointeractive
Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder. By default, deletes a folder and its messages without asking for confirmation.
If you specify the -interactive option, asks if you are sure before deleting the folder. You are advised to use this option,
since when deletes a folder its contents are lost irretrievably.
Examples
This example shows how asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used:
% rmf -interactive +test
Remove folder "test"? y
Profile Components
Path: To determine the user's Mail directory
Files
The user profile.
See Alsormm(1mh)rmf(1mh)