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UNIX Commands

June 30th, 2006 by Carl Thomas.

This has nothing to do with revival or the church but every time I need these commands I have to search high and low to find them.

Here’s how to archive the folder named big, and any subfolders, into a gzipped file named big.tar.gz:

% cd `mhpath +`
% tar cvf - big | gzip > big.tar.gz
a big/1 42 blocks
a big/2 247 blocks
...
% ls -l big.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 ehuser    1167386 Nov 14 09:34 big.tar.gz
% rm -r big

Build the tarball with this command:

tar -cvzf name.tgz subdir

where subdir is the name of the subdirectory you want to save. To continue the example, this command would be:

tar -cvzf rainpics.tgz pics
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