You knew it already – but I keep forgetting – the power of zgrep and zcat both of which behave as their z-less counterparts.
So, to search a gzip’d file, you can simply zgrep <term> <filename.gz>, or to cat/view it, zcat <filename.gz>
Good to come back to in case of impending forgetfulness…
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…)
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…)