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Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:11:05 -0800 (PST)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: tar question
To:	klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:
> How can i force tar also to archive empty subdirectories?
> Per default tar does not add empty subdirectories to the archive.
> 

I just did
  mkdir tmp
  tar -cvf tmp.tar tmp
  tar -tf tmp.tar
and get
  tmp/

What makes you think that tar doesn't add empty subdirectories?

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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