TGZ(1)

💖 TGZ 💖

okay bestie, this is tgz from the Mtools Users Manual — she's short, she's sweet, she makes gzip'd tar archives and then she leaves. main character energy tbh 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tgz — makes a gzip'd tar archive. that's it, that's the whole job. iconic. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tgz [ destination [ source ...  ] ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: tgz makes a gzip'd tar archive, and the name of that archive is whatever you put in as the first parameter. easy.

Then it fills that archive up with the files you listed as source files. but listen — if you don't specify any source files at all? no worries, she just grabs everything in the current directory and calls it a day. slay.

And if you're feeling extra minimal and omit that first parameter too?? then the archive gets written to stdout. literally just vibes straight to your terminal. 🫶

😭 BUGS 😭

okay so not everything is perfect, and we're gonna be honest about it:

• tgz requires gzip in the user's path. no gzip, no archive, sorry bestie.
• It also needs gnu tar — or something close enough to it — because it uses --exclude, --totals and -S. those flags are not optional, she needs them fr fr. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org) wrote this page for the Debian/GNU mtools package. king behavior, we love to see it. 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• gzip(1)
• tar(1)

the whole friend group, honestly. go check them out. ✨

and that's the page, bestie! this was mtools 3.9.8, dated May 2002 — vintage but still serving. 🍓 bye, love u, go make some archives 💜