Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Jack Wenger <jwenger@acw-web.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressing Tar Message-ID: <19980811201608.10775@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811184204.16258A-100000@br01.acw-web.com>; from Jack Wenger on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 06:44:35PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811184204.16258A-100000@br01.acw-web.com>
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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 <blah> 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
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