Hi, Thansk. Is the following also good fo tar cfJ new.xz /etc because:
file new.xz returns: new.xz: XZ compressed data Regards, Kevin On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Lasse Collin <lasse.col...@tukaani.org> wrote: > On 2014-11-09 Kevin Wilson wrote: >> The forum webpage give an error. > > Thanks. I fixed the link. > >> So I hope you will forgive me >> for sending to xz-devel, in the hope that someone may advice. > > This list is fine for user questions too. > >> According to the man page of xz, it seems that >> xz folderName or >> xz folderName/ >> is enough. >> However, when running: >> xz /etc/ >> I get; >> xz: /etc/: Is a directory, skipping >> >> I saw that it is possible with the tar command, with soem command >> options, but isn't it possible with xz ? > > xz isn't an archiver, that is, it cannot pack multiple files into a > single file. tar is an archiver but it isn't a compressor. To archive > and compress, you can use tar and xz together: > > tar cf - /etc | xz > etc.tar.xz > > GNU tar and BSD tar can call xz themselves: > > tar caf etc.tar.xz /etc > > Maybe you have used .zip or .7z files. With such file formats the > archiving, compression, and possibly also encryption are done by a > single file format and tool. When using tar with gzip/bzip2/xz/whatever > the tasks are done by separate file formats and tools. > > -- > Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode >
