[Linux-disciples] bzip2 and directories

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:29:40AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> That whole "zip a directory" thing is very Win32ish.

I don't know about that. It's only a silly idea to zip a
directory and its contents if you view the job of a
compressor as 'zip one file.' If you admit the possibility
that a compressor should be able to compress more than one
file at a time, then it seems reasonable to at least make
something like

gzip `find .`

admissible. You're still separating the task of 'compress
files' from the task of 'get the list of files to compress.'

Besides: if tar's already integrated enough with gzip and
bzip2 that you can call the compressors from inside tar,
then it seems they've already recognized the usefulness of
integrating the two functions.

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