From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 11 18:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14105 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14097 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA15355; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:33:14 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA25405; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:33:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980812103302.W22754@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:33:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Wenger , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressing Tar References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Wenger on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 06:44:35PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 18:44:35 -0500, Jack Wenger wrote: > Simple question, how can I compress a tarball as it's made, using > compress? > Something like: tar -cvf fred.tar * | compress * fred.tar.z, or something > like that? tar czvf fred.tar.gz * This will give you gzip, of course. If you really *insist* on using compress, the syntax is: tar cvf - . | compress > fred.tar.z Use . as the file name, not *, or you'll miss files starting with a .. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message