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Re: tar compression for dired marked files?


From: Alex Kost
Subject: Re: tar compression for dired marked files?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:39:29 +0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Sivaram Neelakantan (2013-12-09 16:41 +0400) wrote:

> Is there any way to compress marked files using tar instead of gzip
> when using Z in dired mode?  without using M:!?

AFAIU using gzip is hard-coded in `dired-compress-file'.

I didn't understand what you mean by "M:!" (maybe "M-!" for
shell-command), but if you want to create one tar file from marked files
you can use:
! tar -cf out.tar *




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