Re: UNIX command help

From: Bryan Donlan (bdonlan@maine.rr.com)
Date: 02/19/02


On Monday 18 February 2002 11:10 pm, you wrote:
> In order to "tar" and compress your source and world files, what should I
> do? I forgot the command, I know it starts with "tar" and than "gzip
> tarfile". I just need how to tar it, I think this is the archive deal? I am
> sorta new to both programming and UNIX. Thanks.
>
>
> Loving Kilara, and you know I love every moment of this.
> Kevin
>
> Get my PGP key at www.geocities.com/kdeathwish/pgp.htm

For GNU tar:

tar czvf tarfile.tar.gz infile1[...]

For others:

tar cvf - infile1[...] | gzip - > tarfile.tar.gz

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