Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:56:07 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Lira <joe@joe.to> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: BMICK@bigpond.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902011353060.23627-100000@c4.joe.to> In-Reply-To: <199902012032.PAA00478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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well i will keep my mouth shut from now on until i know what i'm doing :) by the way, a friend of mine and I got a sweet little telnet chat program running. feel free to stop by ( telnet joe.to port 7227 ) it interfaces the the web in numerous ways: www.joe.to/cgi-bin/stats www.joe.to/current.shtml www.joe.to/cgi-bin/profiles?command=view this page requires you to have logged in to the chat system first www.joe.to/cgi-bin/mail?command=login joe On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Joe Lira wrote, > > to compress * into filename.tar: > > > > tar -cvf * filename.tar > > Two things, > > 1) The archive name/device should be the first argument, i.e. > > % tar cvf filename.tar * > > 2) tar does not do compression. If you want to do compression try, > > % tar cvf filename.tar * > % gzip filename.tar > > Or, to be more guruish, > > % tar cvf - * | gzip -c > filename.tar.gz > > To do the same thing on one line. HTH. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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