From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 11 18:04:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14232 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from demon.ildm.com (cx946114-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com [24.4.69.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14213 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ataru@demon.ildm.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by demon.ildm.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24985 for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ataru) From: Moroboshi Ataru Message-Id: <199808120103.SAA24985@demon.ildm.com> Subject: Re: Compressing Tar In-Reply-To: from Jack Wenger at "Aug 11, 98 06:44:35 pm" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:03:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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? > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Jack Wenger > webmaster@ac-ent.com > IBM Advanced BesTeam Member > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > This should work. tar zcvf fred.tar.gz * --Brennon Church To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message