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bcamp1973 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007

i'd like to have an alias (or something similar) where i can type a command like "archive" and a filename and have it tar and gzip the file, so...

$ archive filename

results in filename.tar.gz...do i have to write a script to do this?

porter · #2 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007

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Originally Posted by bcamp1973

do i have to write a script to do this?

Frightening, but that's how I would do it.

For example, create a $HOME/bin directory and add that to your path, then put your useful scripts in there.

bcamp1973 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007

frightening? does that mean it's a bad idea? i'm very much a *nix noob, so don't want to do anything stupid. I'm trying to archive files using tar (recommended to me elsewhere) then i figured i'd compress them to save disk space. maybe I shouldn't be doing that?

porter · #4 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcamp1973

frightening? does that mean it's a bad idea?

No, it's not really frightening, and yes it's exactly the right thing to do.

bcamp1973 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007

ah, cool...thanks!

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