Keep your tar file in compress state

If you want to keep your files in tar and compress your tar file as well, for reducing disk space and bandwidth to transfer file.

If you want to keep your files in tar and compress your tar file as well, for reducing disk space and bandwidth to transfer file.
Linux Command is best for this the directory is linux–
[[email protected] ~]$ tar cf – linux | gzip/bzip > tarcompress.tar.gz
Used gzip like below-
[[email protected] ~]$ tar cf – linux | gzip > tarcompress.tar.gz

To verify your tar+gzip file data inside-
[[email protected] ~]$ tar -tzvf tarcompress.tar.gz
To search specific file data from tar+gzip file-
[[email protected] ~]$ tar -ztvf tarcompress.tar.gz ‘linux/c’

For uncompressing your tar+gzip file-
[[email protected] ~]$ tar -tzvf tarcompress.tar.gz

If you wanted to capture the output so you had an index file of what the tar file contains:
For sh, ksh shell prompt use:
[[email protected] ~]$ tar cvf – linux 2>foo.idx | gzip/bzip2 > tarcompress.tar.gz
For csh shell prompt use:
[[email protected] ~]$ (tar cvf – linux | gzip/bzip2 > /tarcompress.tar.gz)>&tarcompress.idx