Compression when encrypting the output of tar?

[Richard Laager]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 16:58 -0700, Chris De Young wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that tar already compresses data and that I am 
> better off using "--compress 0" when using GPG to encrypt the output of tar 
> on the fly?

No. Tar does not compress data by default. You have to either pipe the
output through a compression program or use the -z or -j flag which asks
tar to pipe the output through gzip or bzip2, respectively.

Richard

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