That is the long way.
tar czf mydir.tar.gz /mydir
accomplishes the same. The 'z' flag to the GNU version of tar calls
gzip for compression.
- rick warner -
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bryan Liles wrote:
> tar cvf - /mydir | gzip -c > mydir.tar.gz
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> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:30AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> > what's the correct command to create a .tar.gz file in one step?
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