From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tar compression for dired marked files?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:24:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l890bi$i04$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87haahf2gk.fsf@gmail.com>
On 12/10/13 3:02 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10 2013,Alex Kost wrote:
>
>
> [snipped 4 lines]
>
>>
>> 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 *
>
> yes, I meant M-!,
And if you actually want to compress the resulting archive as indicated by the
subject: ! tar -cZf out.tar.Z
or: ! tar -czf out.tar.gz
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-11 6:24 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
2013-12-10 10:02 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-12-11 6:24 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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