On 2020-01-26 00:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
Trying to sort out how to xz compress. But xz is rejecting
directories, like it expects tars output as its input. And the
manpage is silent on redirections.
I want to compress the directory foo into foo.xz, keeping foo as
there may be further patches applied in the future.
Syntax?
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
2020-01-26 00:11:46 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ mkdir foo
2020-01-26 00:11:53 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ touch foo/bar
2020-01-26 00:11:56 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ touch foo/baz
2020-01-26 00:11:58 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ touch foo/qux
2020-01-26 00:16:42 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ tar -cJvf foo.tar.xz foo
foo/
foo/bar
foo/baz
foo/qux
2020-01-26 00:16:55 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ ll -R foo*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 208 2020-01-26 00:16:55 foo.tar.xz
foo:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:56 bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:58 baz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:12:06 qux
2020-01-26 00:17:29 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ mv foo frobnicate
2020-01-26 00:17:53 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ tar -xJvf foo.tar.xz
foo/
foo/bar
foo/baz
foo/qux
2020-01-26 00:18:02 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ ll -R foo frobnicate
foo:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:56 bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:58 baz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:12:06 qux
frobnicate:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:56 bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:11:58 baz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 0 2020-01-26 00:12:06 qux
2020-01-26 00:18:20 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ file foo.tar.xz
foo.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
2020-01-26 00:19:39 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ unxz foo.tar.xz
2020-01-26 00:20:02 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ ll foo.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 10240 2020-01-26 00:16:55 foo.tar
2020-01-26 00:20:09 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
$ file foo.tar
foo.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
David