On 2/24/06, Hans Meier (John Doe) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Irfan J Sayed am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 19.13: > > Hi , > > > > I already tested with /vobstg.tar in the gzip command but still it's > > hanging and i am executing this perl script from / partition only. > > > > Main thing is that it's creating /vobstg.tar.gz file but not coming to > > shell prompt or not executing next command > > > > plz let me know any other option. > > > > Regards > > Irfan Sayed > [...] > > What about using the additional -z option of tar, so you don't have to call > gzip separatly? > > hth > Hans
That only works with the GNU version of tar. Although, you can approximate it like this tar cf - foo/* | gzip -c > foo.tar.gz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
