SOLVED gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

[Jean]

Hi,
Spent some time searching but couldn't find this.
How can gzip/zip etc get the files that need to go into the zip from a textfile?
Thanks.

[dibl]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

Does

man gzip

say this is possible? I have not heard of it, AFAIK.

[Jean]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

Hey dibl, hate to say it but in windows I did it all the time.
Yes I did 'man gzip', and googled for 2 hours.
A php script of mine generates a textfile with list of files, which then should be fed to gzip to make a zip.
Hmm.. maybe not it's directly possible but only through some scripting..

Well, I have another solution, but I won't mark this thread solved yet, curious if someone still comes up with something.

[dibl]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

Hey dibl, hate to say it but in windows I did it all the time.

"You're not in Windows any more, Jean!"



You may be thinking of a bash script, which calls gzip and then includes directories and files to be zipped into a named archive. That's way over my head, but I would think a person who knows scripting could do a static script that lists a set of existing file names to be zipped into an archive.

[Jean]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

"You're not in Windows any more, Jean!"

No kidding dibl!

You may be thinking of a bash script, which calls gzip and then includes directories and files to be zipped into a named archive. That's way over my head, but I would think a person who knows scripting could do a static script that lists a set of existing file names to be zipped into an archive.

Well I do scripting dibl, only I'm quite stubborn. If I used a method that worked once, I first try that method, untill I bump into a wall, well, often enoough anyway.
Solution in this case is to add the files to the zip in the same loop that made the textfile, should work too...

Thanks.

[kubicle]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

You could do something like:

tar -czvvf Name_of_the_Archive.tar.gz -T Text_File_List_to_use_as_input

(tar has a few advantages over just gzip, tar's man page has more options that may be of use depending on your use case scenario)

EDIT: oops, forgot the zip option (-z) from the command

[Jean]

Re: gzip get files to zip from a textfile?

Thanks cubicle, that's just what I was searching for. I knew it had to be possible, qed.