On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:48, deosaran bisnath wrote: > Now I know this is basic but ...as you may realize from my questions, I am > at the basic level in this stuff > > man tar isn't too revealing, as is all or most man pages, which are > sometimes cryptic, provides little or no examples, is outdated.. but it's > FREE!
gzip generally compresses better than zip, so to answer your subject: tar.gz is probably better than zip If you want a simple example of the most common use, assume that you have a directory "stuff" that you want to tar up: tar zcf stuff.tar.gz stuff That is, tar should: gzip compress the archive 'z', create a new archive 'c', the archive should be called stuff.tar.gz (as it follows the 'f' argument directly, that's important), and should be composed of the remaining arguments on the command line: stuff. To extract the archive: tar zxf stuff.tar.gz -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
