I knew there were heaps of ways to do it, I just didn't know what was best...
Mr Steve suggested this: I'd use tar -cwf foo.tar/ | bzip2 -9 for the best compression, so this is my new friend... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 5:50 PM To: Franki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] tar.gz??? So sprach �Franki� am 2001-10-03 um 17:45:47 +0800 : > so I would do what??? You'd do: a) read the man page b) read the info page c) read the output of tar --help d) do one of the following: d1) tar cfvz foo.tar.gz foo/ d2) tar cfv foo.tar.gz --gzip foo/ d3) tar cfv foo.tar.gz --use=gzip foo/ Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 10 days 0 hours 5 minutes
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