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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:49:22 -0500
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>
To:        Jack Wenger <jwenger@acw-web.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compressing Tar
Message-ID:  <35D0E692.1DCED11E@webwizard.org.mx>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811184204.16258A-100000@br01.acw-web.com>

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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?
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Jack Wenger
> webmaster@ac-ent.com
> IBM Advanced BesTeam Member
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

how about
# tar -czvf fred.tar.gz *
provecho
ed


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