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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:39:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <rkatsnel@globix.com>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: disk space issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041238310.21067-100000@insomnia.local.net>
In-Reply-To: <3690FB59.491C223D@globix.com>

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> gzip -r docs/* > docs.gz
> 
> but that actually gzips every file, which is unacceptable on a live
> server. is there anyway I can get all these files into one gzipped one
> WITHOUT affecting the originals? or anything else I can do? 
> 

Why not try using tar and then gzip?

tar xvf docs.tar ./docs
gzip docs.tar




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