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Subject: Re: tar or gzip or both?
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Dan Cross wrote:
> 
> >         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.  :-)


Oops..  got the wrong kinda redirection in there... I never do it like
that
anyways, is way too much typing =)