Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> Steve Youngs wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > MM> > tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
> <snip>
> > See, just goes to show that you can learn something new each and every day
> Yes, but unfortunately this switch is not recogonized by my version of
> tar (GNU tar 1.12) and '/bzip' yields nothing in the man page :-(
> "What kinda tar is that?"
It's tar that has been patched. Or at least that's what I had to do to
get bzip functionality from within tar. The patch is contained within
the bzip-HOWTO, complete with nicely detailed instructions on applying
the patch. You do, of course, need the source to tar to do this. The
bzip-HOWTO offers a few alternatives to patching tar (pipes and or
aliases) but the patch to tar I think works the best.
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