file tar/gzip

[Raghuram Ollakal_1]

I would like to know How do I " tar/gzip" a file.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Raghu


To know that genrally

1. tar file will ahve a *.tar suffix or you can just do a tar tvf filenname and it will list the contents if that file

2. A gzip file will have .gz suffix , do a gzip -t to check the inegrity of the file and hence the format.


Manoj Srivastava

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Raghuram,

First tar up the files

tar cvf filename.tar /path/to/files/*
or
tar cvf filename.tar ./*

THEN

gzip the tar file

gzip filename.tar

This should result in filename.tgz

HTH,
Jeff

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

In brief,

man tar for more information
man gzip for more information

tar cvf FILE.tar -> compress
tar xvf FILE.tar -> extract
tar tvf FILE.tar -> view

gzip FILE -> compress
gunzip FILE.gz -> uncompress

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim kok Leong

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Man tar and man gzip should help.

basic command:-

tar -cvf file.tar

gzip -9 file.tar


will cteate a file file.tar.gz (Zipped and tared.


Paula

[S.K. Chan]

Step by step .. (example to tar and gzip my home directory /home/skchan)

# cd /home
# tar -cvf myhome.tar skchan
# gzip myhome.tar

You should get the file "myhome.tar.gz". To unzip ..

# gunzip myhome.tar.gz
# tar -xvf myhome.tar

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Remove tar, install GNU tar. You'll never regret it

# tar -cvzf filte.tar.gz files

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

To tar the contents of a directory ,

tar cvf /tmp/new_file.tar /dir1 /dir2 /dir3
To gzip this tar file,

gzip /tmp/new_file.tar

To back out,

gunzip /tmp/new_file.tar.gz
tar xvf /tmp/new_file.tar

Remeber since the files were backed up using absolute path names, extraction of the same will overwrite the file that already exists.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Rory R Hammond]

Example
TAR and gzip /home directory
assuming you have space in /tmp

cd /home
tar cf - * |gzip > /tmp/home.tar.gz

Example:
Restore /home to /home1 directory

cd /home1

gunzip < /tmp/home.tar.gz| tar xf -

[harry d brown jr]

Gnu's tar:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

tar -cvf --gzip


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harry