To copy files to a tarball and gzip at the same time.
tar cvf - ? | gzip -9> filename.tar.gz

NOTE:
The question mark (?) is really supposed to be there.


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:24:45 -0500, "LHradowy"
<laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca> wrote:

>Let me get this correct...
>If I tar cvf file.tar| gzip it creates a tar file in memory (or on
>disk?) then pipes it to gzip to compress it. So if I have a directory the
>has 8 GB in size and I want to tar and compress it, I would tar the file to
>8GB in size the compress it. So in essence I need an additional 8 GB of
>space?
>
>Does tar -cvzf file.tar compress as it tars, does it need additional size
>allocation?
>
>I get an error when I try to tar -cvzf a file, saying the z in not a valid
>variable. Does this mean I need to install GNUgzip?
>
>

Doug
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In article <3f0d359d.1163032@news-server.tampabay.rr.com>,
Doug Burton <dburton30@hotmail.com> wrote:
>To copy files to a tarball and gzip at the same time.
>tar cvf - ? | gzip -9> filename.tar.gz
>
>NOTE:
>The question mark (?) is really supposed to be there.

Why is the question mark there? This will only get files and
subdirectories with single-character names.

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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:45:41 GMT, Doug Burton
<dburton30@hotmail.com> wrote:
> To copy files to a tarball and gzip at the same time.
> tar cvf - ? | gzip -9> filename.tar.gz
>
> NOTE:
> The question mark (?) is really supposed to be there.
>
Why?

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