SUMMARY: Piping tar into gzip

[Allen Belk <allen.belk@xxxxxxx>]

The overwhelming response was as follows:

tar cf - <files_and_directories> | gzip >  <archive_name>

Worked like a charm.


Thanks to:

Luchini, Marco Marco.Luchini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Paul A Sand pas@xxxxxxx
Hans Ranke Hans.Ranke@xxxxxxxxx
John J. Francini francini@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Bemrose rb237@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bryan Rank bryan@xxxxxxxxxxx


Allen Belk

 | Allen Belk, Systems Manager
 | Office of Technology Resources
 | University of Southern Mississippi
 | allen.belk@xxxxxxx  601.266.6013


----- Original Message -----
From: Allen Belk <allen.belk@xxxxxxx>
To: tru64 <tru64-unix-managers@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: Piping tar into gzip


> I am having problems with the GNU version of tar and wanted to know the
> proper way to tar some files and pipe them through gzip, if any.  I want
to
> accomplish the same as tar zcf <archive_name> <files_and_directories>
using
> the tar and gzip that comes with 4.0D.  Am I reinventing the wheel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen Belk
>
>  | Allen Belk, Systems Manager
>  | Office of Technology Resources
>  | University of Southern Mississippi
>  | allen.belk@xxxxxxx  601.266.6013
>
>
>