topic Re: How to compress directories? in Operating System - HP-UX

How to compress directories?

leereg_5 — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:15:49 GMT

I want to compress serveral directories(with all the files and directories under them included). How to perform the task in one shell command?

Thanks a lot!

Re: How to compress directories?

Laurent Paumier — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:24:28 GMT

Use tar/gzip :

# tar cf - dir1 dir2 ... | gzip -9 > archive.tar.gz

Re: How to compress directories?

Shahul — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:32:44 GMT

Hi

U can use compressdir for this.
example

#compressdir /user

Now all files and subdirectories under /user will be compressed.

Shahul

Re: How to compress directories?

Shahul — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:45:29 GMT

Hi

I forgot to add this. U can uncompress this either by uncompressdir or by gunzip command.

Like this

#uncompressdir /user

or

#gunzip -r /user

Shahul