From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tar compression for dired marked files?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:39:29 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppp5p5um.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9ga19iy.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:11:41 +0530")
Sivaram Neelakantan (2013-12-09 16:41 +0400) wrote:
> Is there any way to compress marked files using tar instead of gzip
> when using Z in dired mode? without using M:!?
AFAIU using gzip is hard-coded in `dired-compress-file'.
I didn't understand what you mean by "M:!" (maybe "M-!" for
shell-command), but if you want to create one tar file from marked files
you can use:
! tar -cf out.tar *
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 12:41 tar compression for dired marked files? Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-12-10 6:39 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2013-12-10 10:02 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-12-11 6:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
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