Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:34:44 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files Message-ID: <19990202013444.29410.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199902012032.PAA00478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:32:49 EST References: <199902012032.PAA00478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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 <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990202013444.29410.qmail>