I have a directory that need to be archived with a sub directory that has a number of very. Get names to extract or create from file f The tar program can use external compression programs gzip, bzip2, xz by opening a pipe to those programs, sending a tar archive via the pipe to the compression utility, which compresses the data which it reads from tar and writes the result to the filename which the tar program specifies.
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122 i want to tar and all.php and.html files in a directory and its subdirectories
How can i make it tar recursively but include only two types of files?
However, since gunzip says it isn't in gzip format, you can see what format it is in with file filename.tar.gz, and use the appropriate program to open it. The tar man page is extremely unhelpful for this option (at least on redhat 5.4 thru 6.3)
