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cbrant on 06/10/08


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Archive using tar and bzip2

Published in: Bash 

Quick example of how to compress and decompress archives using tar and bzip2.

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  1. To create a bzip2-compressed tar-file:
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  3. tar -cjf archivefile.tar.bz2 file-list
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  6. Decompressing in GNU tar:
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  8. tar -xjf archivefile.tar.bz2

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