well, you're not missing anything per se...although you've got conflicting flags on the tar command, and then you need to pipe it into a known compression utility, such as gzip.
Assuming that you're only going to a specific level of the given directory structure (ie, you're not going to want to traverse below x number of directories from wherever you start, say 2 levels) you might try the following:
Code:
# to start off...find your files...
find ./* -type d -maxdepth 2
# then use this listing, as a variable, to run against...as you compress it altogether.
# tar cvpf will tar create-verbose-retain permission-using the file eventually named within the gzip call...
tar cvpf - $(find ./* -type d -maxdepth 2 ) |gzip -9 - >tar_file.tgz
# if you'd ever need to list it out...
gzip -cd tar_file.tgz |tar tvpf -
# if you'd ever need to uncompress it (to extract and overlay the same files...)
gzip -cd tar_file.tgz |tar xvpf -
I've noticed bzip2 gives a little bit better compression than gzip. So...I'm curious...what's gives the best compression out of all the compression utilities?
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Hi everybody,
Does anybody know,whether linux-2.4.20-8 supports predictor1 compression in PPP protocol support,as i was able to see there were only two compression techniques that r being supported i.e bsd and
deflate compression from "make menuconfig" under network device... (0 Replies)
Hi Folks,
As I am familiar wih both types compresion forms: gun-zip and .rpm. My questions is how do I uncompress gunz.zip type? As the .rpm I can double click and it will extract...Can someone shed some light on this and thank you...
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Hi all,
I am having few files which needs to be concted into a single file and then it is compressed and FTPed from the UNIX server to the Windows server.
For the above purpose i am using gzip command to compress the files after concetenation.
And i am FTP ing the compressed file in the... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone
I want to use compression in my tape when I backup some file. For example I have several files that use 50gb. If I backup this I need to use two cartridge because without compression I can backup 36gb.
My question is with flag I need to use to compress and I can use 72gb in... (2 Replies)
I'am looking for script (or tool) that would compress all files with given extension in all subdirectory. Important part is that every one file have to end in separate archive whit it's own name.
Eaven if I could point multiple file in one directory and compress them it would be ok.
I' am... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I am working on a sample backup code, where i read the files per 7200 bytes and send it to server. Before sending to server, i compress each 7200 bytes using zlib compression algorithm using dictionary max length of 1.5 MB . I find zlib is slow.
Can anyone recommend me a... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
1-I need to know please if it's possible to compress using openssl?
Here is the version used:
openssl version -a
OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 (+ security fixes for: CVE-2005-2969 CVE-2006-2937 CVE-2006-2940 CVE2006-3738 CVE-2006-4339 CVE-2006-4343 CVE-2007-5135 CVE-2008-5077... (3 Replies)
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git-tar-tree
GIT-TAR-TREE(1) Git Manual GIT-TAR-TREE(1)NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object
SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/).
Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files
in the generated tar archive.
git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used
as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used
instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id.
OPTIONS
<tree-ish>
The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object.
<base>
Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive.
--remote=<repo>
Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
CONFIGURATION
tar.umask
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write
bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details.
EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)
Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory.
git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.
git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header.
git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar
Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.5.3 01/14/2014 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)