On Friday, 24 March 2006 05:07, Rocky Ou wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to compress a directory so that I could SCP it to
> remote server more quikly? I tried gzip -cf directoryName it does not work,
> And then I tried tar -vf DirectoryNme no rerult as well. I may blind but I
> could not find solution in gzip --help as well.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!

tar cvzf archivename.tgz directoryname 

cheers
Duncan

        
        
                
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