hi
can anyone tell me how to zip a folder. redhat linux 7.0. say folder is conf
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--- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 acharya@dacafe.com wrote:
can anyone tell me how to zip a folder. redhat
linux 7.0. say folder is
[snip] philip........did he say atr or zip....:-/
btw pal.....if it's tar that u want to do then the below is the command else it's bash# zip file_name.zip *.*
Trevor Warren
tar zcvf tarfile.tar.gz foldername
info tar for more info.
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Sometime on Jan 16, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say:
philip........did he say atr or zip....:-/
It doesn't matter. on linux, both zip and tar/gzip work. on windows, Winzip can handle zip as well as .tar.gz files.
besides, tar-gzip gives better compression than just zipping. No, it has nothing to do with the algorithms used, just the order.
zip does a compress first, concat second, tar | gzip does the tar - concat first, and compress second.
doing the concatenation first increases the entropy in the file, making it a better compressible.
compression is an entropy reducing process (and as such contributes to the longevity of the universe), and therefore, the more entropy present initially, the better the compression.
Philip
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