you know friend on the basis of these topics, I entered into reason to the person who asks me, and I will use .tar to achieve such a solution
Use tar I could get to what I need right ???
With over a 100 posts in this forum, you know that we can't answer that without knowing what operating system you're using and you clearly describing what you are trying to do. If your goal is to create a single file in the format produced by gzip, that contains more than one file and can be extracted into multiple files by a single gunzip invocation, then I don't think any currently existing software can do what you want.
If you're willing to accept an archive file containing your original files, cpio, pax, or tar can create such an archive for you and some versions of those utilities on many systems have options that will zip that archive into the same zipped file format that gzip creates. Otherwise, you can use gzip to zip the archive after it is created. On systems where cpio, pax, and tar have options to zip an archive, they also have an option to unzip an archive when reading it (or they can autodetect that an input archive has been zipped and can process it without needing an option).
On many systems, the tar command vgersh99 suggested will create an archive of your source files and then zip the archive for you.
Of course, if your system administrator had installed the manual pages on your system, you would be able to look at them and know what options are available on the utilities on your system. The manual pages available on this forum probably include a set of manual pages for a system similar to the one you have and they might give you the information you need. But each version of each operating system comes with its own set of manual pages and details on how some utilities behave often varies with each operating system update (so the man pages on unix.com are a good starting point but are not definitive for the operating system you are using).
Whether or not tar accepts:
or:
or both is one of the things that varies widely between systems (and you still haven't told us what operating system you're using)!
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Good afternoon friends.
I wanted to make a query, how to compress several files and leave them all in 1, for example
flat text files:
filename_1.csv
filename_2.csv
filename_3.csv
expected result
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filename_2.csv
filename_3.csv)
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$ 146 test.txt
Take 1:
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$ 124 test.txt.gz
Take 2:
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$ ll test.txt.gz
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ciao a tutti,
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