Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 22:26:42 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressing Tar Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808112212340.6662-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <19980812103302.W22754@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 18:44:35 -0500, 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?
>
> tar czvf fred.tar.gz *
>
> This will give you gzip, of course. If you really *insist* on using
> compress, the syntax is:
>
> tar cvf - . | compress > fred.tar.z
Why not just
tar cZvf fred.tar.z .
man tar (the "correct" response to the original question, IMO)
reports:
-Z
--compress
--uncompress Filter the archive through compress(1).
under OPTIONS
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