Friday, April 30, 2010

Password Protect you zip tar gz bz2 archives

Yes! It is possible.


Today some one just asked me, is it possible to protect my tar archive, he is NOT so close to me, i don't like this, he tries to protect everything man! Anyway probably he is on a Operation Cock Block!

It is possible.

To create password protected archive

tar cfz - TheFolder/ | gpg -c -o TheFolder.stgz

and to decrypt and decompress the password protected archive

gpg -d TheFolder.stgz |tar xfz -

BTW, did you also forget the Power of linux Z Commands – you may have a look at them once again, they comes handy sometimes - Zcat, Zmore,Zless, Zgrep, Zdiff


Cheers!

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