Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor
Martin D Kealey <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, David L Neil wrote: > =does this also mean that you have performed side-by-side comparison on a > range of compression algorithms/pgms and settled on bzip2 for MySQLdump/ASCII > files? > (instead of (my-traditional) tar...) Tar is *not* a compressor, it's an archiver with NO built-in compression. Ditto cpio, ditto pax. The GNU versions have some fancy extra features to invoke a (small) selection of external compressors; "tar -z ..." is functionally identical to "tar ... | gzip", and "tar -j ..." is to "tar ... | bzip2", except of course that they automatically turn the pipelines around for extraction. -Martin -- The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese. _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug