tar -z ?

blackzone · 07-09-2004, 02:16 AM

usually when use tar I only do -cvf

alot of the time I see other people's code they do -czvf

in the manual it means filter archive through gzip.

what's exactly difference between using it or not?

dshafi · 07-09-2004, 02:31 AM

when u use czvf it will tar and then gzip
create a test file with tar option and then do du -h filename
then use -czvf then do du -h filename u fel the diff

whansard · 07-09-2004, 03:13 AM

it's compression. like a zip file. without gzip, it's uncompressed, unless you compress it with something else.