From: Martin_Doering@mn.man.de
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 12:39:27 CEST
To use gzip with stdin and stdout, you have to add the option -c. For
example:
tar cvf - somedir | gzip -c >whatever.tgz
and back:
cat whatever.tgz | gzip -c -d | tar xvf -
will extract a tar archive, if tar can not uncompress by itself (e.g. on
HP-UX).
Martin
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