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tar and gzip on unix

May 10th, 2007
Being primarily a Linux user, I'm used to the GNU tar program with gzip included. UNIX tar (at least HP-UX) doesn't have gzip included as part of the tar option set. Here's how to do a tar+gzip as a single command: tar cvf - . | gzip > ~/backup-… more »

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