Re: compressing files..

[Marc Mutz]

Steve Youngs wrote:
> 
<snip>
>         tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
<snip>
> 
Wow, thanks Steve. I think it pays to even look in the man pages of apps
you use daily. I always thought "wouldn't it be a good idea to have a
'z'-like switch for bzip2?" :-)

Marc

PS: time to read the bash man page for the third time ;-)

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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics

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