2011/7/28 Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>: > I looked at tar but couldn't figure out the option not to compress there > either. Does Tar compress or not compress by default?
Tar doesn't compress at all - if you want to compress a tar archive you have to pipe through gzip or something similar *prior* to writing out the archive, vis-a-vis tar -czf archive.tgz <source1> <source2> <source3> creates a compressed version tar -cf archive.tgz <source1> <source2> <source3> creates an uncompressed version So you could do something like this <from memory, not checked, YMMV, if it don't work don't blame me, MAN is your friend etc etc> tar -czf archive.tgz <source1> <source2> tar -Af archive.tgz <source3> This'd add the first two files compressed, and the third uncompressed. The zip -0 method is easier. :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
