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Old 01-09-2006, 12:09 PM   #1
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how to zip a folder as tar.gz

Hi im designing a program which will zip a folder i choosed as in tar.gz format but i dont know which shell command does that
does anyone have any idea about this?
 
Old 01-09-2006, 12:28 PM   #2
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tar czvf file.tar.gz Directory/

or

tar cjvf file.tar.bz2 Directory/

Bzip2 (.bz2) compression is a bit better than that of gzip (.gz)
 
Old 01-09-2006, 12:51 PM   #3
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Thanks it worked
 
  


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