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

From: Villy Kruse (vek_at_station02.ohout.pharmapartners.nl)
Date: 01/27/05

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    On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:35:42 -0600,
        Chuck Dillon <spam@nimblegen.com> wrote:

    > Bill Marcum wrote:
    >> On 26 Jan 2005 06:57:56 -0800, A Web Master
    >> <forum_posting@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>>What's the syntax to compress all folders and sub-folders found with TAR ?
    >>
    >>
    >> tar czf file.tar.gz .
    >> if you use GNU tar
    >>
    >
    > If we're including near tars then an alternative is jar...
    > jar Mcf file.jar .
    >

    Almost gives the same result as if you used the zip program. The unzip
    program can unpack archives produced by the jar program. Both jar and
    zip generates the .ZIP format used by the old PKZIP program for MSDOS.

    Villy

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