RE: [Sheflug] Gzip Files

[(Ted Harding) <nospam [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk>]

On 15-Oct-00 Richard wrote:
> If I've got a pile of mixed format files in a directory how do I Gzip
> the whole lot into a single file so that I can send it to a friend ?
> 
> I've got....
> 
> .html
> .sdd
> .jpg
> .jpeg
> .gif
> 
> surely there's a simple gzip command that I can use for all of them ?

Gzip won't do what you presumably want (that your friend can gunzip
the archive into separate files); the result will be equivalent to a
single concatenated file. You need tar or zip.

Assuming you're in the directory in question, and you have write access
to the directory above:

For tar, suppose you want to call the resulting file

  all_files.tgz

then do

  tar czvf ../all_files.tgz *

For zip, suppose you want to call it

  all_files.zip

then

  zip ../all_files *

should do it (see man zip for other options) (and unzip should extract
them).

Ted.

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