Search and view gzip’d files
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 <ter ...
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On the fly compression of a tar-ball or mysqldump
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: ...
Create a Tar file from Directory and all Subdirectories
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 ta ...