gzip

[cginewbie]

can any one shows me a good way to compress mutiple files into a Zip file?

i want to compress
folder1 (everything in this folder)
folder2 (everything in this folder)
folder3 (everything in this folder)
file1
file2
file3

could this be done using gzip?
It is in CGI, to be run from a web browser, not command line...thanks

 

[tsdragon]

What language is the cgi program written in?
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[cginewbie]

would be PERL 5

 

[LightElf]

perldoc -f system
man gzip
man cat

 

[cginewbie]

I can read the manual fine, but too stupid to write some codes in CGI that is accessible from the web. That's why look for some good programmer who can shows me....

thanks for the tip (but I cannot use it)

 

[LightElf]

#to compress current directory
system ('tar -c -z ./ > arch.tar.gz');

 

[cginewbie]

again, this is not what I look for. I am looking to make a tar ball for many directories and files, whose paths are known, not a single file.

thanks for the help

 

[LightElf]

This will make recursive archive with all files and subdirectories in the current catalog.

system ('tar -c -z folder1 folder2 folder3 file1 file2 > recursiveArchive.tar.gz');

man tar

 

[goBoating]

You can also 'feed' tar a list of file by using the -I switch....

If these lines were in a file named files_to_tar.txt

/some/path/to/a/file.txt
/another/path/to/a/second.txt
/a/third/path/to/a/third.txt


You could then use tar like

tar -cvf NewTarBall.tar -I files_to_tar.txt

You would end up with a tar ball containing file.txt, second.txt, and third.txt
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