Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:33:10 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Joss Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to tar and gzip a directory Message-ID: <19991231143310.A25829@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991231222349.5436.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>; from osiris2002@yahoo.com on Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:23:49PM -0800 References: <19991231222349.5436.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:23:49PM -0800, Joss Roots wrote:
> hi all,
> I was doing some backup, and I am using
> tar to gather the whole directory into one
> big .tar file, then run gzip on that .tar
> to produce a tar.gz file.
>
> I know it is possible to do that as one step
> by using the pipe, but not sure of the exact
> command line, I appreciate giving me a hint.
Don't do it with a pipe, just use the z option to tar (or save your self
some more space and use the y option to bzip2 the output). If you
really wanted to do it with pipes you could do:
tar cf - dir | gzip > blah.tar.gz
-- Brooks
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