Gordon Worley wrote: > for some other archival format, but I think tar is a good start). The > problem is that I can't find a way to use tar without writing a file. > I'd like to use pipes, although that probably isn't secure, either. > [...] > > Any suggestions on better ways to do this would be appreciated. > Do you mean that the following doesn't work on OS X? tar cf - . | gzip -9c > /AR/arname.tgz Regards, Max Zinal