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Why is piping 'dd' through gzip so much faster than a direct copy?
I wanted to backup a path from a computer in my network to another computer in the same network over a 100 Mbit/s line. For this I did
dd if=/local/path of=/remote/path/in/local/network/backup....
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Howto pipe: cp | tar | gzip without creating intermediary files?
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to pipe | this without having to create a physical file anywhere between A and B.tar.gz?
This is what I'm trying to do:
File A
Rename A to B
Tar B.tar
gzip -9 B....
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Which is better: using flags, or pipes?
As with many things in the *nix world, there is more than one way to generate .tar.gz files.
Typically, I use the following:
tar zcf /path/to/dir.tar.gz /path/to/dir
However, I have seen the ...
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Split a large .gz file and gzip each of split file?
I have a large text.gz file (2GB) and I want to split it by line. I tried to use:
zcat text.gz | split -l1000000
However this generated a huge file (around 92GB before I terminated it) and put too ...
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