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Name: juhi
Date: March 21, 2005 at 15:03:51 Pacific
Subject: zipping files
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: 512MB
Comment:

Hi,

I need to zip multiple files.How can I do that using gzip?


Juhi


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Name: gurubit
Date: March 23, 2005 at 02:02:21 Pacific
Subject: zipping files
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The best alternative is to first tar for all the fields and create one file for all the files.

Then use the gzip on the tar file.

This is what in general followed by everybody.


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