topic Re: About gzip in Operating System - HP-UX

About gzip

Juno — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:11:40 GMT

how to run the tar and zip at the same time ? thx.

John Poff — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:17:15 GMT

Michael Tully — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:25:07 GMT

There are two methods:

# tar cvf myfile | gzip myfile

or

# tar cvf myfile
# gzip myfile

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:28:44 GMT

I just tried this and IT WORKS!

# tar -cf - ./dir_to_tar | gzip > filename.tar.gz

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 03:56:21 GMT

hi,

if you have GNU tar, that would be as easy as:

tar -cvzf yd.tar.gz ydfiles

You can download it from:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

hth
Yogeeraj