mtools

[Ralf]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:26:48 +1000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> On 6/14/15, Ralf <unknown.crewman at rocketship.com> wrote:
> > by chance I noticed a file  /usr/bin/tgz  .
> > In $HOME I run  $ tgz --help  and a file was generated named
> > --help.tgz  .
> 
> $ man tgz
> TGZ(1)                            Mtools Users Manual
>           TGZ(1)
> NAME
>        tgz - makes a gzip'd tar archive
> SYNOPSIS
>        tgz [ destination [ source ...  ] ]
> DESCRIPTION
>        Make a gzip'd tar archive with the name of the first parameter
> out of specified
>        files or, if no source files are specified, from everything in
> the current
>        directory.  If the first parameter is omitted as well, the
> archive will be
>        written to stdout.
> BUGS
>        tgz requires gzip in the user's path.  It also needs gnu tar or
> something close
>        due to use of --exclude, --totals and -S.
> AUTHOR
>        Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix at debian.org) wrote this page for
> the Debian/GNU
>        mtools package.
> SEE ALSO
>        gzip(1), tar(1)
> mtools 3.9.8                            May 2002
>           TGZ(1)

Thank you for the man page.

I neither had one installed, nor did I found it in the Internet.

It still doesn't explain the copy directories that were created and that
were no tar.gz files.

Regards,
Ralf