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Old 12-22-2006, 11:20 PM   #1
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Question compressing a file

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Im using Suse


How to compress a file turn into a .tar.gz , .bz2 or any linux compression method.... What is the command?
 
Old 12-22-2006, 11:39 PM   #2
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gzip <filename.tar> will compress the .tar file, and give you a .tar.gz.

bzip2 <filename.tar> will give you a tar.bz2 file.
 
Old 12-23-2006, 03:20 AM   #3
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or you could just throw the z or j options during the initial tar-ing:

i.e. tar czvf stuff.tar.gz stuff_to_targz/
 
  


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