bz2 without mpg's

John Thompson JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Tue Nov 2 22:27:53 UTC 2004


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chris wrote:

| I am wanting to create a bz2 arcive of some files but without adding
| mpg's. Anyone know a command or program that I can do that with.

bz2 isn't an archiving program; it's a compression program. "tar" is the
the most common archiver for linux -- you can tell it to use bzip2 to
compress the archive by using the "j" switch. E.g.:

~  tar jcvf myarchive.tar.bz2 whatever/*

- --

- -John Thompson (john at os2.dhs.org)
~ Appleton WI USA
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