From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 14:23:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web109.yahoomail.com (web109.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1D7314E66 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 5437 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Dec 1999 22:23:49 -0000 Message-ID: <19991231222349.5436.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> Received: from [208.14.5.212] by web109.yahoomail.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:23:49 PST Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:23:49 -0800 (PST) From: Joss Roots Subject: How to tar and gzip a directory To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all, I was doing some backup, and I am using tar to gather the whole directory into one big .tar file, then run gzip on that .tar to produce a tar.gz file. I know it is possible to do that as one step by using the pipe, but not sure of the exact command line, I appreciate giving me a hint. thanks in advance. ===== MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message