I am trying to compress all files and folders in the current folder (on my Windows 10 environment) so I can extract them on my Raspbian environment. Im using a Powershell script with the tar command
tar -cvzf output.tar.gz .
From all that I read, tar is recursive by default, but Im finding that despite my best efforts I cant get it to compress anything other than the files in the root of the folder.
If I populate the directory with some test files and folders (named file1.txt, file2.txt and subfolder respectively, which also contains two test files) then tar works as expected and includes the subfolder!
I suspected that this was perhaps a privileges issue, so I ran powershell as Administrator but the result was the same.
The contents of the directory are coming from a Publish from Visual Studio -- thats the only thing I can see which might be causing the problem. I just dont know what the problem is.
tar -cvzf output.tar.gz *