On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 16:57, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Georgen,
>
> > I have read in the man pages that concatenating the files before passing
> > thru gzip improves the compression.
>
> That is what you use tar for before gzipping. Tar concatenates the
> files into a single archive wh
Hi Georgen,
> I have read in the man pages that concatenating the files before passing
> thru gzip improves the compression.
That is what you use tar for before gzipping. Tar concatenates the
files into a single archive which compresses better than the individual
files.
Bye,
Leonard.
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Hey, you bright guys out there...
I am writing a short backup script with the output being *.tar.gz.
I have read in the man pages that concatenating the files before passing
thru gzip improves the compression. I have tried cat, however, it seems to
only concatenate files, not directories. If I ha
