tar cIf tarfile.tar.bz2 /directory
If you want a list of what is being tar'd you can use cIvf instead of cIf.
Quickly: c=create, I=bzip2, v=verbose, f=file
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Adriel Cardenas G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to use tar
> I want to make the tarball of dir using "tar" and
> "bzip2", could someone
> tell me how to do that, the tar man page got me
> totally confused.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
#tar -c /your directory mynewtar
#ls *.tar
mynewtar.tar
#gzip mynewtar.tar
#ls *.gz
mynewtar.tar.gz
Good Luck
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