Re: how to zip/compress a directory?

["john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com>]

nope. it won't work..

[guest@cslab share]$ tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps
pixmaps/
tar (child): pixmaps.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
pixmaps/3D-Gun.xpm
pixmaps/Ant.xpm
Broken pipe
[guest@cslab share]$
is that permission problems

> --- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded Message ---
> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:13:24 +0100
> From: cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: how to zip/compress a directory?
>
> > "john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >I would like to zip a directory... gunzip -c > pixmaps.gz doesn't seem 
> to
> >
> > >work. Also, I don't have a root password, I am an ordinary user only.
> >
> > No need to be root. Try 'tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps', if you're
> > trying to compress the pixmaps directory. 'tar xzvf pixmaps.tar.gz' will
> > decompress it again.
> >
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> > Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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