Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Create a tar file and pipe to compress command

Status
Not open for further replies.
gawker

gawker

Programmer
Feb 21, 2002
34
US
I need to create a tar file in a filesystem with limited room. Is there a way to send the tar file directly to the compress command so that the tar output is directly compressed (i.e., no intermediate file) and therefore smaller?

Thank you.

Gawker [pc2]
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
cd /
tar -cf- ./from/this/path | compress >/to/this/fs/backup.tar


HTH,

p5wizard
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

E
  • Locked
  • Question
What are reservations and how do you set them?
Replies
0
Views
204
emze
E
A
  • Locked
  • Question
Adding Existing LUN to New LPAR AIX
Replies
0
Views
243
Alvinghost
A
jkc2023
  • Locked
  • Question
AIX TL and SP upgrade
Replies
0
Views
266
jkc2023
jkc2023
sheilar32
  • Locked
  • Question
Migrating from AIX to anything else
Replies
0
Views
218
sheilar32
sheilar32
Dan Gaeta
  • Locked
  • Question
Power 740 and HMC
Replies
1
Views
244
pa2nc
pa2nc

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top