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Re: [cobalt-users] tar not compressing?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] tar not compressing?
- From: Kevin Bonner <keb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Feb 23 17:50:02 2004
- Organization: CTI Networks
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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On Monday 23 February 2004 20:40, FantasticMoms.com wrote:
> I just noticed tarring my log files doesn't seem to make them smaller.
>
> I just tarred web.log by using the following :
Tar just groups files into one archive. If you want compression in tar, 'man
tar' or 'tar --help' should give you the proper options for using either
bzip2 or gzip compression. If you're only trying to compress that one file,
I would just use the actual programs bzip2 or gzip. Since it is a text file,
you will probably get better compression using bzip2, however, it take more
time than gzip would.
Kevin Bonner
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