Turn a .tar file into a .tar.gz?

Katie59 · 03-12-2010, 11:47 AM

This has probably been asked before and if it has, I'm sorry, I just don't have time to search for it right now.

I have a bunch of times that are in .tar format, and need to be made into .tar.gz. How do I do that? I really don't want to go through and manually compress each and every one, because there's a lot of them!

Thanks as always for your help

MTK358 · 03-12-2010, 11:50 AM

Code:

gzip *.tar

Katie59 · 03-12-2010, 11:59 AM

Wow, yea, I really should have been able to figure that out on my own.

*blush*

Thanks!

schneidz · 03-12-2010, 02:35 PM

also consider creating tarballs in one blow:

Code:

tar -cvjf dir-name dir-name.tar.bz2 # to compress
tar -xvjf dir-name.tar.bz2 # to extract

MTK358 · 03-12-2010, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz

also consider creating tarballs in one blow:

Code:

tar -cvjf dir-name dir-name.tar.bz2 # to compress
tar -xvjf dir-name.tar.bz2 # to extract

Replace 'j' with 'z' for gzip instead of bzip2.

Also with newer versions of tar you do not need to specify 'j' or 'z' when extracting, it automatically detects it and runs gunzip or bunzip automatically.