From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Kost Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tar compression for dired marked files? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:39:29 +0400 Message-ID: <87ppp5p5um.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a9ga19iy.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386657601 24585 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2013 06:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sivaram Neelakantan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 10 07:40:02 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 1VqGzB-0002yl-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:40:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqGzA-0001Ix-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqGyt-0001In-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:39:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqGyk-0003tq-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:39:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::234]:38911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqGyk-0003tk-FK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:39:34 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id y1so2265327lam.25 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:39:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=qTmJBMEEOWLh6moOLHbctEwU/CYWyeHOw3q5V+Syvis=; b=wc6ACc+axoqAIOPw/ycziJrPrb7DW37zNz+lH+ccK1oEp8OsCAUYMw7yw6oqW0A5n2 e4qn9pSH7cSB/AfDEjkzVDQMBZG8ZvqTo86lYw2FWILrtBPeJliP9tVFQ7Nq2z+G+NG1 gJ+6SxuO+i/geNgSnTGioPdEDhKWu+RPRGPJwsnSphvFG1FsraB5DqOo1rghMT9EpKzJ JiwwXqXMxuguyIslzYMjztAthreE2JizQGZOQDfcJBxoRdEH8sCfGpqMJi5z8rTZK9jG knnLlvo+X/VY99YRdHU67CG5zHftWgvXJb+vxDkAgyIEdAaky/jsHxRmf0ZlRVC4A46p GMqQ== X-Received: by 10.152.19.65 with SMTP id c1mr4294509lae.49.1386657572105; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:39:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from leviafan (128-70-201-172.broadband.corbina.ru. [128.70.201.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r10sm19589544lag.7.2013.12.09.22.39.30 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:39:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87a9ga19iy.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:11:41 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::234 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:94918 Archived-At: 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 *