will a gziped directory preserve chmods ?

[Donovan]

Hi, if I gzip a directory, will the chmod be kept, so If I restore the directory, it will keep all the chmods ?

Thanks,
Donov

[Sweede]

only if you use -a (i think)

but then you can always type
man tar
man gzip
man bzip
man etc, etc

[klamath]

You can't gzip a directory.

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[Donovan]

So will tar do ?
If I tar a directory, will the permissions be preserved ?

Thanks,
Donov

[klamath]

Take a look @ `info tar`. From a brief glance, it appears that when tar makes archives, it preserves the permissions. By default, it changes permissions when extracting the archive -- but if you give it the flag --preserve-permissions , it will keep them the same.

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[SubPar]

Yes. Tar keeps permissions and attributes on files and directories. Once you've got the directory tarred up, you can gzip it. (Actually, tar can automatically gzip a tarball when you create it. Read the man page for tar for details)

[Craig McPherson]

All gzip does is compress single files, so it's not an issue. You have to use tar to glom them together into a single file, and yes, you have to pass certain options to tar to make sure it preserves permission and ownership exactly.