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I have directory Dir1, how can I zip the directory and make it as Dir1.tar?
Thanks

please refer to man pages for trivial help like using tar, it's a LOT quicker for you...

either way: tar -cvf file.tar file1 file2

% tar -cvf Dir1

will create

Dir1.tar

but that won't compress it. It will 'tar' it like sticking lots of files together.

% bunzip2 Dir1.tar

will (not surprisingly) make:

Dir1.tar.bz2

you could also use gzip, but I understand that bzip2 uses a better compression algorithm.

Bert

% bunzip2 Dir1.tar

will (not surprisingly) make:

Dir1.tar.bz2


Will not create .bz2 file, but bzip2 can create new .bz2 file.

bunzip2 can just unzip a file.