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"James A. Mutter" wrote:
> 
> > 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

this doesn't work, because there's not enough space anywhere to store
docs.tar

thanks,
roman

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