Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/25/07 15:46

Rakshasas wrote:

> I have been playing around with it for a while, but I cannot seem to
> gz multiple files at the same time, as in place them in the same
> archive.

Gzip can only ever compress one file at a time -- that's just the way it
works. This is why Gzip is often used with Tar. Tar takes several files
and glues them together into one file, but doesn't compress them.

Indeed, they're so often used together than most modern versions of Tar
include an option to automatically pass the tar file through to gzip.

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