[Discuss] tarballs (was Re: Firefox with RedHat Fedora)

[R. McFarlane]

On 1/22/07 7:31 PM, Murray Strome wrote:

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>>> and I even have to look up how to tar and gzip things then extract 
>>> them again from the command line as I cannot usually cannot remember 
>>> it from the last time I used it a few months before).
>> tar xzvf <file.tar.gz>
> I normally use:  tar cvf - {files} | gzip -9 > {tarfile}.tar.gz
> to create the gzipped tar file and
> gunzip -9c {tarfile}.tar.gz | tar. xvf -
> to unzip and extract the files.
> 
> I am sure your way is just as good, but mine does work. However, I do 
> not always remember it, especially if it has been several months since 
> the last time.
> 
> I sometimes use Ark instead to do all of this.
> 
> Thanks for your advice, though.


	I prefer bzip2. It's just that much smaller. :D
	Word of advice though, if you have to work on a sub-pentium 2 system, 
bzipping large amounts of files (or large files) will eat up the 
resources big time!

tar jcf stuff.tbz (file or dir) - compresses
tar jxf (tbz filename) - extracts

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