From bb264b81b2a77998380a1eb1f0a9442d2c53b1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul S <pshirshov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:04:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tar: add a relative paths example (#3867)

Co-authored-by: Starbeamrainbowlabs <sbrl@starbeamrainbowlabs.com>
---
 pages/common/tar.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pages/common/tar.md b/pages/common/tar.md
index d141430ae..069dbc048 100644
--- a/pages/common/tar.md
+++ b/pages/common/tar.md
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 
 `tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} {{file1}} {{file2}} {{file3}}`
 
+- Create a gzipped archive from a directory using relative paths:
+
+`tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} -C {{path/to/directory}} .`
+
 - Extract a (compressed) archive into the current directory:
 
 `tar xf {{source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}}`