How to tar -z

man gzip says GNU tar supports the -z option to invoke gzip transparently. Our
HPUX's tar doesn't (man tar; tar -z... tar: z: unknown option). How does one
create a one-file archive (for ftp'ing) of an entire directory tree without
doing a tar followed by a gzip (which requires double disk space).


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