Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:15:04 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> Cc: Jack Wenger <jwenger@acw-web.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressing Tar Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812141116.16956F-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <35D0E692.1DCED11E@webwizard.org.mx>
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Edwin Culp wrote: > 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? > how about > # tar -czvf fred.tar.gz * Yuck. It's a good idea to have tarballs contain one directory which contains everything else. Otherwise people unpack things and find their current directory littered with files mixed in with whatever is already there. So, if you want to make a tarball of everything in the current directory called fred then do this: cd .. tar -zcvf fred.tar.gz fred Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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