Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Cc: cjclark@home.com, joe@joe.to, BMICK@bigpond.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files Message-ID: <199902012140.NAA27708@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902011236520.28173-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at "Feb 1, 99 12:38:04 pm"
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According to Eric J. Schwertfeger: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Joe Lira wrote, > > > to compress * into filename.tar: > > > > > > tar -cvf * filename.tar > > > > Two things, > > > > 1) The archive name/device should be the first argument, i.e. > > > > % tar cvf filename.tar * > > > > 2) tar does not do compression. If you want to do compression try, > > > > % tar cvf filename.tar * > > % gzip filename.tar > > or just tar czvf filename.tar.gz * > > under FreeBSD, since it has that option (Is FreeBSD using gnu tar, out of > curiosity?) > FreeBSD does use tar|gtar (aka GNU tar) which has builtin [un]compression. Anybody know if there is a script that can automatically uuencode|uudecode tar'd and gzip'd files? A -U flag to gtar could automatically turn `[g]tar czUvf tarball.tgz *' into `tarbal.uu', and `tar xzUvf tarball.uu' into `tarball.tar'. So much code to hack, so little time.... --gdk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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