Timeline for Can I zip an entire folder using gzip?
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| S May 28, 2018 at 15:46 | history | suggested | Black | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:56 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | @vadimkotov This might be what you're looking for: superuser.com/questions/168749/… | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:40 | comment | added | Vadim Kotov |
Can we see the overall progress of creating archive by any means other than -v flag? I mean like 56/100% is done or something like that
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| Feb 9, 2017 at 16:00 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | @hello_there_andy It makes no difference to most unixes, but windows (and smart tab completion in linux) will makes assumptions based on filename extension. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | hello_there_andy | Does the naming of the archive affect anything machine-wise? I know it would be nice to let people know the algorithm originally used to zip it (hence .gz), but other than that does is it actually matter how you name the archive? | |
| S Oct 28, 2016 at 6:17 | history | suggested | Bruno Bronosky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added the info from Patrick's comment to the answer.
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| Oct 5, 2016 at 12:11 | comment | added | XoXo |
i have been using tar cvzf for quite a while. one thing to note: if you use Windows (7-zip to be specified) to unzip a *.tar.gz file, it takes two rounds. One to unzip *.tar.gz file into a *.tar file, the next one to unzip that tar file into the original content. it increases the total unzipping time, especially for large files (e.g. logs)
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| Jul 5, 2014 at 15:04 | history | edited | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 4 characters in body
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| S Jul 5, 2014 at 14:58 | history | suggested | Wolfram | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add format for tar option `z`, print options in bold
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 0:16 | comment | added | phemmer |
Just to make things even more explicit, this is exactly equivilant to tar -cv directory | gzip > archive.tar.gz. The resulting archive can then be extracted with tar -zxvf or even zcat file.tar.gz | tar -xv. Point being that the tar is completely independent from the gzip, the tar command just includes gzip support for convenience.
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| Oct 1, 2013 at 11:55 | history | answered | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |