Tar and Compress

[aneesz]

Dear expert,

How to tar files and compress them at the same time.. Currently i'm using AIX 5.2.

Thanx in advance..

 

[MoshiachNow]

Can be :

tar cvf ttt.tar file1 file2 ; compress ttt.tar

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[Ogzilal]

Hi,
You can use named pipes to tar and compress on the fly this way :

mknod /path/to/np p # create a named pipe
tar cvf /path/to/np /files/to/tar & # tar on background process
compress < /path/to/np > /path/to/file.tar
rm /path/to/np # delete the named pipe

I Hope this helps

 

[Gloups]

Hi,


you can also install and used the new version of tar wich include as in Linux all the compress options:Z, gz, bz, bz2 ...

 

[unixfreak]

new = GNU?

You just have to remember to install gzip, bzip2, etc because GNU tar doesn't have them built-in.

Cheers

 

[niella]

Here is an example to uncompress:

uncompress -c file | tar xvf - /target

 

[aixmurderer]

The GNU tar from UCLA includes the gzip option, so to use that: /usr/local/bin/tar cvzf archname.tar.gz file1 file2 ...

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