22 Apr
2009
22 Apr
'09
11:30 p.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:23, James Matthews nytrokiss@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.
HTH, Filipe