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FYI and FWIW, you can't count on tar recognizing the "-z" option on all flavors of *nix. I've been burned by this before and it depends on the "flavor" of tar installed on the system.


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Re^3: Creating a tgz file without a module
by rspishock (Monk) on Sep 08, 2011 at 17:07 UTC

    Thanks for the advice. Fortunately, this script will only be running on one system so, at least in this case, everything should be fine.