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cbrant on 06/10/08

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Quick example of how to compress and decompress archives using tar and bzip2.

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To create a bzip2-compressed tar-file:
 
tar -cjf archivefile.tar.bz2 file-list
 
 
Decompressing in GNU tar:
 
tar -xjf archivefile.tar.bz2

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