Pass params w/tar czvf? (Re: [PLUG] Tarball installation)

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Thu Jul 18 21:50:40 UTC 2002


On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> Second minor correction, the f option requires a parameter that is
> the archive file name.  So this would read:
> 
> tar cvzf xxx.tar.gz xxx

Addendum to the correction :-)

The verification switch (-W, --verify) cannot be used with either a
compression switch (-j, -z, or -Z) or when piping tar's output to
stdout. You have to do two atomic operations, e.g.,

  tar cWvf xxx.tar xxx && gzip -9v xxx.tar

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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