cli-tarHow do I tar and gzip data from stdin?

Tar is a program used to archive and compress files or directories. Gzip is a program used to compress files. To tar and gzip data from stdin, the following command can be used:

$ tar -czf - <input_file>

This command will compress the <input_file> and output the result to stdout.

The code can be broken down into the following parts:

• tar - the program used to archive and compress files
• -czf - flags used to indicate that the command should create a tar archive and compress it with gzip
• - - the output should be written to stdout
• <input_file> - the file to be archived and compressed

The output of this command will be the compressed tar archive written to stdout.

Helpful links

• Tar Documentation
• Gzip Documentation

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