compress files into singlefile

[aixsupport]

Hi,

Do we have option in AIX that compress number of files into single file.i mean to say that if we have
/tmp/a
/tmp/b
/tmp/c files
and i would ile to compress those in singlefile /tmp/test.Z like pkzip command in windows.

Thanks in advance
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[aixmurderer]

Well, you can use tar for that, and then either gzip or compress the tar file afterwards.



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[aixsupport]

Hi,

I got u. thanks for ur suggestion.

Thanks
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[aixmurderer]

Unfortunately AIX (I may be wrong, it may work using the GNU tar version) isn't as easy as linux, on linux you can simply do both in the same go, e.g.:

tar cvzf a_name.tgz dirname (which will give you a gzipped tar file of the directory all in one go)

Unpacking is the reverse: tar xvzf a_name.tgz

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