Commands to tar gzip and unpack on-the-fly in Unix and Linux

smallwei 10:15 am on October 16, 2009 | Answers: 1    
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• smallwei 10:15 am on October 16, 2009
  

  To tar and gzip on the fly:
  tar cvf – somedir | gzip -c > somedir.tar.gz

  To unpack on the fly:
  gunzip < somedir.tar.gz | tar xvf -