1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
10 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
What I would do is use the '-' special filename to pipe the uncompressed tar to stdout, pipe to the compressor of choice, then pipe to tee, and have one branch of the tee go to the tape and the other branch go to a program to count bytes.
The GZIP environment variable is working really well. It tells me the compression ratio and even send it to STDERR for me so I can easily separate that from the gtar output.
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