tar question

[Earnie Boyd]

--- klaus.berndl@sdm.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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