Re: tar/gzip

From: Edward J Glamkowski (eglamkowski@ANGELFIRE.COM)
Date: 08/25/98


>or just:
>tar -zcvf tarfile.tgz <files/directory>
>
> the 'z' option automatically runs the tar through
> gzip..to unzip:
> tar -zxvf tarfile.tgz

That -z  is not standard tar, at least not under
Solaris 2.5.1.  Perhaps that is a GNU thing?

If you've got it, use it, but don't count on it :P



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