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

Comments on: Commands to tar gzip and unpack on-the-fly in Unix and Linux http://www.dbuggr.com/smallwei/commands-tar-gzip-unpack-fly-unix-linux/ Share Knowledge & Be Rewarded Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:13:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: smallwei http://www.dbuggr.com/smallwei/commands-tar-gzip-unpack-fly-unix-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-26 smallwei Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:15:54 +0000 http://www.dbuggr.com/smallwei/commands-tar-gzip-unpack-fly-unix-linux/#comment-26 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 - 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 -

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