Hello, it seems that this is more tricky, than thought... (-: I want to "gzip" several files , but the only result i get by searching in google is , that i have to use gzip with tar together (tar -czf ...) . Is there really no possiblity , to compress several files in ONE paket.gz file?
Well, it's very common to use tar to create an ARCHIVE of your files, and then compress that archive .. hence why you see all those tar.gz /.tgz files. gzip is more or less made to compress 1 file.
The below is part of a backup script I use. It's creates a file called var_www_backup_ with the current date on the end. It excludes files and directories that have the "--exclude=" option and includes the rest. This example is doing directories but just put a file name instead if you like. Code: tar czPpfh /media/backup/daily_backups/var_www_backup_$(date +%Y%b%d).tgz \ --exclude='/var/www/clients/' \ /var/www/drush/ \ /var/www/media/ \ /var/www/scripts/ \ /var/www/munin/ \ /var/www/scorebrds/ \ /var/www/tokens/ \ /var/www/lizer/ \ /var/www/ftp/ (These are not my actual directories ).
Once you get it all working properly and think you have gzip functioning I like to use this easy test page to see if it actually works http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
