The iPhone as many owners will realize is lacking one core feature and that is to cut, copy and paste. You can do a lot of Google searching on this but you won’t come up with anything more than a lot of rubbish about “how a cut copy paste function might work”, really it is pointless, trust me, I have tried. The best thing all of us iPhone “testers” can hope for is an inclusion of the feature in an update.
Notice how I say that we’re testers? That’s right, there’s no way this lil sucker should be out of beta… But oh, wait it’s been released a few months before December holidays, coincidence, I think not.
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The tar command is all you need to compress a directory for archiving and it does two things:
- It create the archive, and,
- It compress the archive
Usage of the tar command is as follows:
tar + switches + archive name + source directory
The switches really aren’t that complex, you pretty much always use -zcvf but just so you kow, here is an explanation of each switch:
- z: Compress archive using gzip program
- c: Create archive
- v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
- f: Archive File name
For example, you have directory called /home/techpop/data and you would like to compress this directory then you can type tar command as follows:
tar -zcvf data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz /home/techpop/data
Above command will create an archive file called data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz in current directory.
That’s it - I’m sure you’ll agree that’s very straight forward. For more information about GNU tar software, check here.
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