From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 11 18:16:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17033 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16997 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12304; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980811201608.10775@futuresouth.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Jack Wenger Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressing Tar References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Wenger on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 06:44:35PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 06:44:35PM -0500, Jack Wenger woke me up to tell me: > 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? Well, you can tar -zcvf to gzip it. To compress, you'd have to do something like... tar -cvf - -C * . | compress However, looking through the compress man page, I can't see any indication of whether compress will accept stdin as source. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message