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surfbass 06-01-2005 04:46 PM
need help with tar'ing and bz2'ing a file
 
i read the man pages and i still cant figure it out...can somebody just got through the standard way to tar a directory and then bz2 (and .gz) it?

Andrew Benton 06-01-2005 04:54 PM
I don't know about the standard way, but what I do is cd into the folder above the one I want to compress and then use the command
tar cjf $FOLDER.tar.bz2 $FOLDER
replace $FOLDER with the actual name of the folder

surfbass 06-01-2005 04:57 PM
thanks...helped a lot

Boby 06-01-2005 04:58 PM
Hello!

Pack a directory to an tar archive:
Code:
tar -cvf archive.tar directory
Pack now the the archive.tar to gz:
Code:
gzip archive.tar
You can merge this two steps and create a tar.gz archive of a directory with:
Code:
tar -cvf archive.tar directory && gzip archive.tar
Or a much faster and simply way:
Code:
tar cvfz archive.tar.gz directory
To pack a directory to a bz2 archive:
Code:
tar -cvjf archive.tar.bz2 directory
Good luck!
Boby

LinuxSeeker 06-01-2005 05:07 PM
EDIT: Sorry, I misread your message. If you have read the manual then try to play with simple, small text files to practice the additional options of tar and bzip2.


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