[CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Apr 22 23:29:52 UTC 2009
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:30:51 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:23, James Matthews <nytrokiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do you get bzip2 to compress directories?
>
> You use "tar" to create a tar with the directory contents, and then
> bzip2 to compress that tarfile.
>
> You can use the "-j" option of tar to bzip2 on the fly.
>
> This is probably what you want:
>
> $ tar -cvjf filename.tar.bz2 dirname/
>
> Replace "filename" and "dirname" with something that is appropriate to you.
Note that is also possible to use dump or cpio as well. Unlike the
MS-Windows zip/unzip, which combines compressing and archiving in a
single program, the 'UNIX' way is to separate these functions. bzip2
only compresses. Other programs (tar, dump, cpio) create archives --
bundle a group of files and/or directory trees into a single file.
>
> HTH,
> Filipe
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