tar/gzip

From: Stephen Wolfe (siv@CYBERENET.NET)
Date: 08/25/98


> tar -cvf <Tarfile>.tar <files/directories to tar>
> gzip <Tarfile>.tar
> mv Tarfile.tar.gz Tarfile.tgz (just for 8.3 compliance - some programs are still
> picky)

or just:
tar -zcvf tarfile.tgz <files/directory>

the 'z' option automatically runs the tar through gzip..to unzip:
tar -zxvf tarfile.tgz

siv


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