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1. tar and gzip should be installed as a part of your Cygwin installation.<br />
2. the command is like:<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;tar -zcf c:/your-archive-file-name.<wbr />tar.gz c:/path1-to-all-files &quot;c:/path2 with space/fileXYZ.dat&quot; c:/temp/mylog.txt<br />

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1. tar and gzip should be installed as a part of your Cygwin installation.
2. the command is like:
   tar -zcf c:/your-archive-file-name.tar.gz c:/path1-to-all-files "c:/path2 with space/fileXYZ.dat" c:/temp/mylog.txt


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You can also create compressed archives using the z switch as such:<br />
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tar -cvzf /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/user/compressed.t<wbr />ar.gz &nbsp; /cygwin/c/path<br />
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to create an compressed archive.<br />
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then to reopn the archive you can use:<br />
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tar xvzf /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/user/compressed.t<wbr />ar.gz <br />
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GNU tar will remove the beginning &quot;/&quot; during decompress so it will ope the archive relative to the current path. So if you want to restore /cygwin/c/path to the same folder then you need to be at /cygwin/c or otherwise files will be restore relative to current path. Not the root itself.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
K.<br />

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You can also create compressed archives using the z switch as such:

tar -cvzf /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/user/compressed.tar.gz   /cygwin/c/path

to create an compressed archive.

then to reopn the archive you can use:

tar xvzf /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/user/compressed.tar.gz

GNU tar will remove the beginning "/" during decompress so it will ope the archive relative to the current path. So if you want to restore /cygwin/c/path to the same folder then you need to be at /cygwin/c or otherwise files will be restore relative to current path. Not the root itself.

Cheers,
K.


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I need to compress a number of files in XP into a .tar.gz file<br />
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Can anyone explain the steps to do so using cygwin?<br />
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Thanks
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I need to compress a number of files in XP into a .tar.gz file

Can anyone explain the steps to do so using cygwin?

Thanks

How can I compress a number of files to a .tar.gz file using cygwin

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