From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tar compression for dired marked files? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:32:51 +0530 Message-ID: <87haahf2gk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a9ga19iy.fsf@gmail.com> <87ppp5p5um.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386669816 27995 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2013 10:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:03:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 10 11:03:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VqKAG-0004Tf-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:03:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqKAG-00062C-11 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqK9y-0005yP-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqK9r-0003XR-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqK9q-0003XJ-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VqK9j-00043N-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.248.163.3 ([122.248.163.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.248.163.3 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:03:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.248.163.3 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AmgOT1JpKmZyWD+CWwMT5Qe1nEQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94921 Archived-At: 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-!, sivaram --