http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/12/05/archiving-directories-and-files-with-tar/ because I don't believe in life before coffee... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:44:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/12/05/archiving-directories-and-files-with-tar/comment-page-1/#comment-15305 al Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:40:14 +0000 http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/12/05/archiving-directories-and-files-with-tar/#comment-15305 It's important to note that tar's do not employ any compression by default, they are simply a collection of files. Add a z to the arguments to zip a tarball during creation, and again to unzip it. This type of file is generally associated with the tgz extension. It’s important to note that tar’s do not employ any compression by default, they are simply a collection of files. Add a z to the arguments to zip a tarball during creation, and again to unzip it. This type of file is generally associated with the tgz extension.

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