On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Oron Peled wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:34:43 +0200 (IST) > Shlomi Loubaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (tar's "z" flag in t2 doesn't work ??) > > The "z" flag (as well as the "j" flag for bzip2) is GNU extension > to standard tar. You may manualy do the same using pipes. > To extract: > gzip -dc somefile.tar.gz | tar xf - > To create: > tar cf - ... other args | gzip -c > somefile.tar.gz
However, you might try: locate bin/gtar to find the directory where all the gnu tools are, and add it to your path. It will make your life much easier. Gnu tools are more convinient not only with regards to tar. find is also such a case. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
