On Sunday 26 January 2020 03:25:37 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 26.01.20 03:03, 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? > > Gene, > > While the manpage says "xz is a general-purpose data compression tool > with command line syntax similar to gzip", it appears to lack the -r > option. That'd be why the examples found with a "xz directory > compression" google use tar, I figure. (Like in the old days.) > > Now we know what "similar" means. > > Erik
I think that last statement needs a grin. ;-) Any way I made a tarball, then xz'd it, saveing a nominal gigabyte to DL. I'd still like to make a deb out of it. I might see if I can do a dummy install and tar.xz that. When I'm awake again. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
