i need help on creating a tar files including compressing in one command
call.

"Toni Pekas" <toni.pekas@swisscom.com> writes:
>i need help on creating a tar files including compressing in one command
>call.
>
>

Why?

(Some tar's will create gzip output in one step. I can never remember
which ones, so I always pipe things in and out of compress/gzip.)

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In comp.unix.solaris Toni Pekas <toni.pekas@swisscom.com> wrote:
> i need help on creating a tar files including compressing in one command
> call.

tar cf - dirname | gzip -c > mytar.tar.gz

Scott.

In article <1077101066.641295@ftpgate>,
"Toni Pekas" <toni.pekas@swisscom.com> wrote:

> i need help on creating a tar files including compressing in one command
> call.

If your tar includes the -z option, use it. Otherwise:

tar cf - <filenames> | gzip > archive.tar.gz

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"Barry Margolin" <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:barmar->

> tar cf - <filenames> | gzip > archive.tar.gz
tar cf - <filenames> | gzip - >`archive.tar.gz

haven't checked, but the above will work without specifying standard in as
'-'?

Ron

"Toni Pekas" <toni.pekas@swisscom.com> wrote in message news:<1077101066.641295@ftpgate>...
> i need help on creating a tar files including compressing in one command
> call.

tar cvf - /some/dir | gzip > mytar.tar.gz

or if zip format is acceptable

zip -r9 myzip /some/dir

"Ron" <fbr@m-net.arbornet.org> writes:

> "Barry Margolin" <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:barmar->
>
> > tar cf - <filenames> | gzip > archive.tar.gz
> tar cf - <filenames> | gzip - >`archive.tar.gz
>
> haven't checked, but the above will work without specifying standard in as
> '-'?

Yes. gzip (like most UNIX utilities) assumes stdin if you don't give
it a file.

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