Is there a built in command for openSUSE to create a “.tar.bz2” file? I know how to tar, but don’t know what to use to create a bz2 file.
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‘man tar’
-j, --bzip2
filter the archive through bzip2
You can also use the bzip2 command for an existing tar, though doing both
at once is usually nicer. To create:
tar -cjvf /path/to/your/file.tbz /path/to/files/going/into/the/tar
to extract:
tar -jxvf /path/to/your/file.tbz
Good luck.
6tr6tr wrote:
> Is there a built in command for openSUSE to create a “.tar.bz2” file? I
> know how to tar, but don’t know what to use to create a bz2 file.
>
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Hi
In gnome just select files/folders and create archive. From the command
line tar/gzip then bznew the tar.gz file.For example to produce
scripts.tar.bz2
tar -czf scripts.tar.gz scripts/* && bznew scripts.tar.gz
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.bz2 files are created with bzip2. As ab and malcolmlewis have explained you can create them in one step with tar, so I’ll just show you what that one step effectively breaks down to:
tar cf archive.tar files-and-directories-to-archive
bzip2 archive.tar
You can use bzip2 to compress other things, not just tar files, e.g. mysql dumps.