Nathan England wrote:

> Okay, I've got it copying files...
> But using the same method, is there a way to compress the files on the fly?
> I need it to append each file to a tar archive, which is simple, but when I 
> introduce the compression, it doesn't work.
> 
> find . | tee output
> while read file ; do
> ??? compress tar command ???
> done < output
> 
> How would I do this?
> 
> just doing:
> tar -rf "$file" $TMP/backup/stuff.tar 
> 
> works great. But if I use a gz or bz2 file it just errors. Is this even 
> possible?
> 
> I can get it to work with .zip, but I'd prefer bz2.

finish the loop adding all the files, then run gzip or bzip2 on the final tar file.

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