10 Sep
2009
10 Sep
'09
14:30
Randall R Schulz wrote:
TAR also permits more compressions schemes (in fact, beyond the ones it will invoke itself based on options like 'j' or 'z', it can run arbitrary external compression commands if you wish).
Or just feed the output from cpio through your favourite compressor. I find cpio very useful for some things, particularly when I have file names in a file or from stdin. The output can be made tar-compatible. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org