Also, "gzip" and "gunzip" are more common in the UNIX world; however, these compress single files only, they will not grab an entire folder, such as a bundle. To do that, you use gzip/gunzip in combination with "tar", which is an archiving tool.
To compress/create an archive:
tar cfz <archive-name>.tgz <input-file(s)>
To decompress/extract an archive into the current directory:
tar xfz <archive-name>
Note: tar stores filenames "as is". If you are in a directory, say /xyz/abc, and try this:
tar cfz mytarball.tgz def/qwerty/*
Then everything (incl. subdirs) in /xyz/abc/def/qwerty will be included in the archive, and extracting it as in:
% cd /lmnop % tar xfz mytarball.tgz
will place those files into /lmnop/def/qwerty. Similarly, doing this:
tar cvf mytarball.tgz /xyz/abc/def/qwerty/*
will archive the same files as the previous command, but now the same exact extraction command will place the files into /xyz/abc/def/querty, since absolute pathnames were used.
I think using tar in combination with gzip/gunzip yields better compression than zip/unzip, but I'd have to check again to be sure.
Note that the "z" (compress with gzip) option is not available with the versions of tar which ship with many commercial *NIXes; for these platforms you would compress/archive with:
tar cf - <source-file(s)> | gzip -c > <archive-name>
Note that the "stray" greater-than sign in this line is to redirect output and should be included (the paired < and > symbols should not be typed, obviously). So like this:
tar cf - def/querty/* | gzip -c > mytarball.tgz
And to decompress/extract:
gzip -c mytarball.tgz | tar xf -
On Dec 14, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
ditto -x -k test.zip test
Is ditto on 10.1?
Dar Scott
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