On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, James Matthews <nytrokiss at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? * All the files in a dir? ( you cannot compress the directory itself). Try: find dir -type f -print | xargs bzip2 -v or find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 bzip2 -v or cd dir; bzip2 * Do you want to Package all the files into a tar or cpio archive so you can send it to someone else? -- NiftyCluster T o m M i t c h e l l