password protect gzips

**Blaqb0x** · 08-30-2002, 04:11 PM

Winzip has this feature.

what about tar/gzip?

**Schotty** · 08-30-2002, 04:24 PM

I thought so, but didnt see anything regarding that in my manpages for tar and gzip. However zip has it ::

Code:

 -e     Encrypt the contents of the  zip  archive  using  a
              password  which  is  entered  on  the  terminal  in
              response to a prompt (this will not be  echoed;  if
              standard  error is not a tty, zip will exit with an
              error).  The password prompt is  repeated  to  save
              the user from typing errors.

HTH