Tar and zip

[Marcel1958]

I have to deliver a file what is tarred and zipped. Now i do first the tar and than gzip. The file extension is .gz
but they want the extension .tgz
In Linux i found the for the tar command the parameter -z to compress and tar but in AIX i cannot found this.
How can i create the .tgz file in AIX or can i simply rename the .gz to .tgz?

 

[p5wizard]

tar to stdout
gzip to stdout
redirect the tgz output to whatever file with tgz extension.
tar -f- ./dir|gzip -c >tarfile.tgz

or you can rename the tarfile.tar.gz to tarfile.tgz

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[madmurdock]

You can create a compressed tar file under AIX, it you use not the standard tar-command but the tar command which is deliverd within the Linux Toolkit for AIX.

The second way is you rename your *.tar.gz in *tgz

Then you con uncompress it with gzip -d, this command will in one step uncompress and untar the archive

Greetings

mad

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[AIXtexas]

I usually do it this way:

tar -cf - ./target_file_or_dir/ | compress > target_file_or_dir.tar.Z

 

[ProbablyDown]

Here's another way to do it if you don't have room for the tar and you need to send more than one dir (as happened to me):

# mknod tar_pipe p
# compress -f < tar_pipe > backup.tar.Z &
# tar -cvpf tar_pipe backup/
...any more dirs that you might want to tar
then,

# rm tar_pipe