How to gzip more than one file using cygwin

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How to gzip multiple files into one gz file?

I am trying to gzip a bunch of files in the same folder using cgywin on windows 7. When I try

gzip *.* 

I can't seem to specify a gzip filename to put all the files into. All files are gzipped separately. Is it possible to gzip the collection of them into the file?

Answer 1

No, you do not gzip collection. You use PAX or CPIO or TAR to make it.

gzip *.* is useless.

DOS would take gzip .
UNIX would use gzip *

tar cfz file.tgz dir/ dir/ dir/ file dir/file

tar tvfz file.tgz
tar xvfz file.tgz