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tjgadu 06-03-2005 01:59 AM
zip a folder
 
suppose i have a folder named FOLDER and I want to zip it together with the files it contains inside.

If i do gzip folder, Ii get an error messesage telling me that FOLDER is a directory..

How can i ahieve that?

bathory 06-03-2005 02:00 AM
Code:
tar czvf folder.tar.gz FOLDER
will do the trick


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