On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 14:57:29 +0000, Paul.Koning@dell.com wrote:
Sort of. For a very long time now, tar has had switches to invoke compression or decompression along with the archive operation. "z" for gzip, more recently "j" for bzip2, and more recently still "J" for xz compression.
(For what it's worth, GNU tar's pipe-to-(de)compression-utility functionality supports auto-detection of various other compression formats [incluing lzip], as described here: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html "tar --help" lists the compression formats compiled into that particular GNU tar binary [in the "Compression options:" section].) Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - nathanst@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239