From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 17:36:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19262 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA19254 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 29411 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Feb 1999 01:34:44 -0000 Message-ID: <19990202013444.29410.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:34:44 +1000 From: Greg Black To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files References: <199902012032.PAA00478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: <199902012032.PAA00478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:32:49 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 2) tar does not do compression. If you want to do compression try, Wrong. > % tar cvf filename.tar * > % gzip filename.tar > > Or, to be more guruish, > > % tar cvf - * | gzip -c > filename.tar.gz Even better, RTFM. FreeBSD's tar (which is really GNU tar) does compression with either compress (the -Z option) or gzip (the -z option). -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message