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How to use zip and tar with files to create compressed archives.

Create compressed files.

Date Created:Friday December 29th, 2006 03:41 AM
Date Modified:Wednesday July 30th, 2008 05:16 PM

ZIPPING FILES IN A FOLDER
zip stuff .* *
this will make stuff.zip out of all the files in the current directory


ZIPPING A FOLDER:
zip -r foldername newzipname
ex
zip -r pic pic
(you dont need to put a .zip on the second one, it will do it for you)

GZIP
*replaces file scene.bgeo with scene.bgeo.gz
gzip scene.bgeo
*brings the file back to bgeo
gunzip scene.bgeo.gz

TAR
*to untar sometar.tar
tar xvf sometar.tar

*to untar sometar.tar.gz
tar xvfz sometar.tar.gz
tar -zxvf sometar.tar.gz

*to see a list of contents, use t option
tar -tzf sometar.tar

*to tar up stuff
tar czf sometar.tar.gz *.jpg

-f is for filename, so it goes last when making
-z is gzipping or ungunzipping
-x is extract
-c is for create
-v is verbose, unessessary

COPY WITH TAR
tar -cf - blah/ | ( cd /path; tar -xf - )

zip and tar by Dan Lynch
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Based on a work at www.3daet.com
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