RE: Unix help needed

["Ian Willoughby" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

No tar only works with devices or files, well devices are files actually.
GNU Tar supports a directive to specify a compression program such as gzip
to preprocess the files before they are tared.

R's
Ian


      -----Original Message----- 
      From: Ben McCormack
[mailto:ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx] 
      Sent: Fri 12/07/2002 14:11 
      To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
      Cc: 
      Subject: [ukha_d] Unix help needed
      
      

      Sorry for the OT post but I am in need of
some Unix help.
      
      I have got to tar and compress some files up
but they will not fit into
      the new location until they are compressed
and they are too big to be
      tared in location.
      
      Basically can pipe a tar into a compress
ie
      
      Tar blah.tar *  compress
      
      Is this possible?
      
      Regards Ben
      
      
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