Re: Compressing folders/sub-folders with TAR : how to ?

From: PM (pm_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:24:18 +0100

Tim Haynes wrote:
> forum_posting@hotmail.com (A Web Master) writes:
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>
>>What's the syntax to compress all folders and sub-folders found with TAR ?
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> There isn't one. RTBM tar(1).
>
But he(one) can compress (compress, gzip, bzip2) the tar-file :-)

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