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Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]



You can compress all .deb files into one zipped tar file
with only one command. See the manual page of tar. You 
don't need to write code with a "for"-loop. I think it's
tar czf packages.tar.gz debdir
with debdir the directory containing all your .deb files,
and packages.tar.gz the target zipped tarfile.


On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:36:13AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Now that I can transfer my downloaded .debs in a .tar file, I wonder if
> I could create this .tar file saving disk space, e.g. in the following
> way
> 
> <pseudo-code>
> create a tar file (touch packages.tar?)
> for *.deb in this directory
>    1.) add it to the tar file
>    2.) rm this .deb
> end
> </pseudo-code>
> 
> Is this possible for (non-GNU)-tar?
> How would this look for the csh?
> 
> Even better: Could this be included in the wget-script?
> thanks 
> 
> joerg
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