Showing posts with label compress multiple files using tar and gzip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compress multiple files using tar and gzip. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2009

How to compress multiple files using tar and gzip

1. Put all the required filenames in a file
2. tar all the files
3. gzip the tar file
eg:
vjsujay@gmail.com$ ls *.html > filelist
vjsujay@gmail.com$ fname=filelist
vjsujay@gmail.com$ tar -cvf multihtml.tar -L $fname
vjsujay@gmail.com$ gzip multihtml.tar
Final file will be multihtml.tar.gz