american-ninja-warrior
Reputation: 8215
How to create an empty tgz file?
How to create an empty tgz file? I tried
tar czvf /tmp/empty.tgz --from-file /dev/null
tar: Option --from-file is not supported
Upvotes: 7
Views: 3883
Answers (1)
Petr Skocik
Reputation: 60107
The switch you're looking for is --files-from or -T:
tar czvf /tmp/empty.tgz --files-from=/dev/null
Upvotes: 9
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