Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 13, 2005 01:10 AM
I still use the old way (tar cf - | gzip -c >file.tgz) for one reason-- to get specific info on the encryption ratio. If you use "tar cvzf" you won't get info on how well the archive compressed, whereas if you pipe to "gzip -c" or "bzip2 -v", you can get compression information.
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Re:Strange
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 13, 2005 01:10 AM#