Comments on: Tar and compress a file in one step

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:12:00 +0000

To Compress !
tar cjf /dir1 file1 /dir2 …. /dirN /fileN => For Bunzip

tar czf /dir1 file1 /dir2 …. /dirN /fileN => For Gunzip

You can always use
“man tar” when you need help !

To Extract/uncompress , replace the “c” with “x” in the above commands !
Thanks ,
Danny

By: GlobalNerds

GlobalNerds — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:27:00 +0000

How do you uncompress this in one step?

By: Vinayak Kamath

Vinayak Kamath — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:21:00 +0000

You can use gtar instead

gtar -cvzf target output.tgz

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Or ‘tar zcf target.tgz’ Most tar versions have had built in gzip function for over a decade at least. Over ssh it would be ssh blah@blah ‘tar zcf -’ > target.tgz

By: Quinn McHenry

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:11:00 +0000

it would be:

tar -cf – /home/eaips/var/fileName | gzip -c > /home/eaips/var/fileName.tar.gz

By: Satish

Satish — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:40:00 +0000

I have following two steps in my script, how club them and do it in a single step ?

tar -cf /home/eaips/var/fileName.tar /home/eaips/var/fileName
gzip /home/eaips/var/fileName.tar