How to Delete a Tar File After I Gzip It?
I Am Creating a Tar File and Then I Am Gzipping the Tar File. So I Am Getting A. Tgz File and Now I Want to Delete the Previous Tar File. ${Gzipexe} -F...
I am creating a tar file and then I am gzipping the tar file. So I am getting a .tgz file and now I want to delete the previous tar file.
${gzipExe} -f --rsyncable $tarname.TAR --stdout >> $tarname.TGZ
2 Answers
I usually zip the file at the same time by using the 'z' parameter with the tar command:
tar czvf allmyfiles.tar.gz *
The above command creates a new archive file called allmyfiles.tar.gz that contains all the files in the current folder, and zips it.
Otherwise, just delete the .tar file with the next command:
$rm $tarname.TAR
Note that .tar.gz is more commonly used than .tgz.
You have a couple of options. Assuming you need that --rsyncable option:
- Compress and tar in one step (without an intermediate tar file):
REM I think you are on Windows so... set GZIP=--rsyncable tar czf file.tar.gz files
- Pipe the output of tar into gzip (without an intermediate tar file)
tar c files | gzip --rsyncable > file.tar.gz
- Archive and compress in two steps.
tar -cf file.tar files gzip -f --rsyncable file.tar
If you simply run gzip file.tar instead of gzip --stdout file.tar > file.tar.gz gzip will delete the tar file for you.
Also note that using gzip --stdout file.tar >> file.tar.gz as in your question will actually append the new gziped contents to file.tar.gz which is probably not what you want.
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