use the tar and gzip commands such as:
tar -cf mud.tar src
creates a tar file named mud.tar of every in the source directory
and its subdirectories.
gzip -9 mud.tar compresses the mud.tar file to maximum compression
9 = max compression, 1 = min compression
that will create a mud.tar.gz file
to decompress:
gzip -d mud.tar.gz
tar -xf mud.tar
Try typing "man tar" and "man gzip" for the manual entries on tar and gzip
They are much more in depth.
It is possible to pipe both commands into one, but for ease of learning I
kept them separate.
Allan Gortemaker
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