Starter problem

[kurt]

@yawns
Sorry didn’t happen,
he refused “cowardly or yellow” this is the translation I found, to create an empty archiv.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror
tar: Anlegen eines leeren Archivs wird feige verweigert.
„tar --help“ oder „tar --usage“ gibt weitere Informationen.

[in_a_days]

@kurt

Two things -

1. You’re in the MagicMirror directory. Type this:

cd ~

2. You need a space here:

tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror

should be

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

[kurt]

@in_a_days
sorry but if I write just

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~

nothing happens

[in_a_days]

@kurt

That’s okay! You’re in the right folder now :)

In the previous post your command prompt looked like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

Which shows you in the MagicMirror directory. But if your command prompt now looks like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Then you are back in the correct ‘~’ folder and you can proceed to step 2.

[kurt]

@in_a_days said in Starter problem:

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

this is what I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror
tar: Entferne führende „/“ von Elementnamen
tar: /MagicMirror: Funktion stat fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler

What do you think?
Thank you

[in_a_days]

@kurt

I apologize, I have not used the tar command before. Remove the ‘/’ before MagicMirror. Try:

tar -cvf mirror.tar MagicMirror

[kurt]

@in_a_days
Thank you everything went qicker than the eye…
what is the name of the file, it should be outside of the MM file in the pi file?

[in_a_days]

@kurt

Great! I’m still very new to this and I’m not using FTP. But there should now be a file named ‘mirror.tar’ in your ‘pi’ directory.

[kurt]

@in_a_days
seems to be well hidden, wherever it is…hmm
couldn’t find it

[in_a_days]

@kurt

From the ~ folder:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

type

ls

Do you see the mirror.tar file listed there?