gzip a directory (URGENT)

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi I have one directory as "eAMRLTXFLDS0"...I am supposed to create a
eAMRLTXFLDS0.ofcld.gz using gzip...

Can u plz help me wth the command..

Thanks in advance..

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man gzip will give you the answer.
sorry, It does not, it gives a different answer than what you are looking for..

I think you should use it in combination with tar..

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I hope its not too late....

you could do something like this...
gzip -c <yourfile> > <dest file>
<your file> will be the extracted directory and the <dest file> will be the gzipped form of your dir!!!

Regards

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How about:
tar -cvf - <directory name> | gzip -c > <directory name>.tar.gz

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tar czf directory.tgz directory