Oh, just realized i misspelled two things, in the linux example "targ"
should be "tar" of course, and the extension of the gzipped tar archive
should be either "tgz" or "tar.gz" instead of the "gz" for proper operation.

Tamas


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>
wrote:

> With tar + gzip you can do the following under linux:
>
> $ targ cvzf file.tgz dir/*
>
> On Win, however, for some reason that does not work, so you have to have a
> workaround, like this:
>
> C:\> tar cv dir\*.* | gzip > file.tgz
>
> ...therefore, the following works for me fine:
>
> C:\>FOR /D %G IN (*.*) DO tar cv "%G\*.*" | gzip > "BACKUP_%G.gz"
>
> If that does not work check what tar + gzip version you have, mine is:
>
> C:\>gzip --version
> gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
> Compilation options:
> DIRENT SYS_UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H NO_CHOWN PROTO ASMV
>
> C:\>tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.12
>
> Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tamas
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I made the change but still no luck. I'm not sure why it isn't
>> seeing
>> what is there...
>>
>> D:\>"D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe" -c "d:\Temp.install\*.*"
>> 1>"k:\gz\Temp.install.gz"
>>
>> d:\Temp.install\*.*: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> I'm also try to figure out how to take a list of dirs and get tar/gzip to
>> work
>> from that perhaps, but I'm don't seem to be getting my mind around it...
>> :( I'd
>> like not to have to dir to a file, edit the file, then run it
>> individually...
>>
>>
>> Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I think the quotation is wrong, so it should be like this:
>> >
>> > FOR /D %%G IN (*.*) DO "D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe" -c
>> > "d:\%%G\*.*" > "k:\gz\%%G.gz"
>> >
>> > Tamas
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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