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Old 03-26-2008
Amoung tar and gzip whiich unix command is more practical with respect to space manag
Hi All

Can any body help me out.



Amoung tar and gzip whiich unix command is more practical with respect to space management and file restoration.

Eg if I use tar or gzip which will be more helpful to reduce the space and during the file restoration.

Please help me out.

regards
manas
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Old 03-26-2008
tar is not a compression technique. Originally designed for tape archive, tar is now used for grouping files together and move them. A typical example would be grouping all files related to a package for delivery.

gzip uses a compression algorithm which can be exploited to save space. Option -9 in gzip provides maximum compression.

The usual method of delivering packages is tar all files and then gzip the tar file. Hence your package will look like my_package.tar.gz

We then need to apply gunzip and then tar extraction on this package at the receiving end to see the files in the package.
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Old 03-26-2008
By package, I mean a set of codes (e.g., unix scripts).
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Old 03-26-2008
Hi
Thanks a lot for your valuable information.

regards
manas
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