Zip and Unzip

concoran · 08-02-2002, 12:00 PM

How to use gunzip to 'compress' a directory?

sarin · 08-02-2002, 01:22 PM

Take off gunzip from your path &
alias gunzip="tar cvzf" and do what you want!

--Sarin

dorward · 08-02-2002, 02:32 PM

gzip only works on single files, you first need to create an uncompressed archive of the directory.

Code:

tar cvf file.tar directory
gzip file.tar

You can tell tar to pipe the output in to gzip with

Code:

tar cvzf file.tar.gz directory

concoran · 08-02-2002, 05:14 PM

Thanks, That exactly what I wanted.

sarin · 08-02-2002, 07:12 PM

Sorry, I thought you were not serious about it.
--Sarin