Just to jot it down lest I forget:
Tar’ing the local directory and streaming the tarball straight to gzip:
tar cvf - . | gzip > target.tar.gz
MySQLdump’ing directly to gzip: (more…)
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On the fly compression of a tar-ball or mysqldump
2010
07.14
07.14
Create a Tar file from Directory and all Subdirectories
2010
06.28
06.28
It’s a simple one-liner that one tends to forget (that is, one that I forget as I untar more than I manually tar). So creating a tar file from directory and all subdirectories is as simple as
tar -cvf file.tar directory (more…)
