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I have some scripts and files located in various locations like:

  • /etc/dir1
  • /var/www/html
  • /home/somedir

I want to make a tar file so that it copies files and folders with the location structure. When I untar to another location, all the files will be copied to their respective locations in the correct paths; same as where tar was made.

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You can just use

tar -cf myfile.tar /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir

also, you could use

tar -czf myfile.tar.gz /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir

This second example (note the z in the -czf parameter) will compress the tar file using g(z)ip.

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    switch c to x when you want to extract.
    – n00b
    Jul 14, 2018 at 2:04
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This works for me small change by adding "change to directory DIR (C)" argument

tar -zcvf myfile.tar -C /etc/dir1 /var/www/html /home/somedir 

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