3. Once your program has been tested, you are ready to create an archive of your
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3. Once your program has been tested, you are ready to create an archive of your lab deliv- erables so that they can be submitted to your lab instructor. Go into your HOME direc- tory (not your Lab 2 directory), and type the command "tar -cf Lab_2.tar Lab_2" without the quotes). This command will make an archive of all the files in your Lab 2 directory and place the archive into a file named Lab.2.tar 4. Once you have successfully created the archive named Lab.2.tar, use the cscheckin pro gram to turn in the file Lab 2.tar. bash-4.1 cd bash-4.1s tar -cf Lab 2.tar Lab 2 tar: Lab_2: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errorsExplanation / Answer
tar command in linux helps us in archiving the files.
we can give the following options while executing the command
-c : Create archive file
-z : Compress the file with gzip.
-v : Verbose mode ( allows us to know the progress)
-f : Allows us specify the name of the archive.
In the above scenario we are archiving the Lab_2 directory using c and f options. In order to do that Lab_2 directory must be within the set of files/ directories. In other words, we need to be in the parent directory of Lab_2 directory but not in the ancestor directory. So Here, HOME directory is the ancestor one and hence the command tells us that "No such file or directory"