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Unix, Pack Folder And Contents With Tar Gz

12.04.2006

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tar -zcvf packagename.tar.gz folder/

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folder
gz
gzip
pack
shell
TAR
Unix
zip

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2006/05/30 - 6:14pm

thank you for your comment! i'm always willing to learn. :)

Michael Richter replied on Sun, 2006/10/22 - 4:41am

To use bzip2 instead of gzip, substitute a 'j' for the 'z'. Bzip2 is typically superior for text files than gzip while the reverse tends to be true for binary. It is, however, very slow during compression.