Hi, the tar program has a filter built into it that lets it zip using either gzip/bzip2 (and I think zip also, but can't remember) at the same time that it is creating the archive; to do so, type the following:
$ tar -cvzf foo.tar.gz foo OR $ tar -cvjf foo.tar.bz2 foo the first line, using the "z" switch, will compress using gzip; the second line, using the "j" switch, will compress using bzip2. HTH, David Charles On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: > > > Hi all, > > this is going to sound like a dumb question, but believe it or not, I have > never done this before.. > > I want to create .tar.gz files... > > to create a tar, I use tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/ to tar the foo directory > (taken long ago from the readme) > > if I want to make that a tar.gz file, I assume I have another step?? tar > alone doesn't seem to compress alot... > > so I would do what??? > > tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/ && gunzip????? > > Ta, > > > rgds > > Frank > > >
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