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Subject: Re: tar or gzip or both? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 15:27:11 EST."
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 16:59:06 -0500
From: Dan Cross <tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu>
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>         tar cf - home > gzip -c > home.tar.gz

Errm,

	tar cf - home | gzip > home.tar.gz

Otherwise, you'll just have this really big file called gzip in the cwd.  :-)

> or the *easy* way, provided by 'man tar' by itself
> 
>          tar zcf home.tar.gz /home
 
This is probably the best way to do this.  :-)

	- Dan C.