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bullz
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‎05-13-2010 10:16 AM

‎05-13-2010 10:16 AM

Real difference between tar and gzip

It may be bit silly question for you all. Apologies for that.

But like to know that exact operation of these two. (tar & gzip)

Which is more effective in compression.
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Ivan Ferreira
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‎05-13-2010 10:54 AM

‎05-13-2010 10:54 AM

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Re: Real difference between tar and gzip

The tar command is not used to compress files. Tar just packages the files. It's used to create one big file from multiple small files. After tar, you must gzip the file to reduce the size.

If you use tar with the "z" option, it will use gzip to compress the data.

A better question could be the difference between bzip2 and gzip, or tar and cpio.
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
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bullz
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‎05-13-2010 12:08 PM

‎05-13-2010 12:08 PM

Re: Real difference between tar and gzip

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