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Howdy, I'm trying to tar a bunch of files into their own individual tar archives. In other words i have files a.txt thru z.txt and i want to create a.tar thru z.tar in the same folder. I've been using -T to read in the list of files to be archived but i can't get it to work. I think my problem is with the -f option as i'm not sure what to put for the outputted files. I'd be really grateful if someone could help with this. Maybe it needs to be scripted?

Hi my thread here was deemed to be a homework question and subsequently closed by a mod. I don't know how to prove that this has nothing to do with homework. I'm 35, out of work for 18 months. I have a Qnap TS209 and I have a folder on it with a ton of roms (as in games) that I want to compress to free up some space. Certainly nothing to do with homework. Can I have the thread re-opened or should i look for answers elsewhere?

Thanks

Moderator's Comments:

Neo: Discussion reopened and threads merged

I dunno what duke saw as homework in your last posting, but...I'd tar and gzip them as follows, although you'd do just as well to lump them all into the same archive too:

Code:

for i in * ;do tar cvpf - $i |gzip -9 - >${i}.tgz ;done && gzip -t *.tgz

Thanks man, a friend has just suggested something similar although he didn't pipe it to gzip which i defintely want to do. I was trying to use gzip with the tar -z switch but I wasn't happy with the compression so your suggestion looks great so thanks again The reason I'm doing them individualy is that some emus can read from archives.

Cheers!

mind your disk space though...because this approach does it all in I/O, it also doesn't scratch the old copy once it's been compressed. I generally use it to redirect to other locations. You might want to modify the * to maybe a range or so, just to keep it manageable.

Otherwise, there is nowhere else. The forum here is pretty much the most capable and engaged there is... (Maybe trigger-happy sometimes, but well-intentioned.)

Best of luck w the search.

Thanks again mate.

I've seen enough in the last hour to figure that this forum is great and that i can learn a lot here. Very glad I joined. Mods have their jobs to do and I'm sure Duke has good reason to suspect it's homework.