Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > tar cvpf - dir-to-archive | bzip2 -9vc > /var/tmp/archive.tar.bz2
> >
> > bzip2 -dc /var/tmp/archive.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
>
> now that is a mouthful, -z is a better way.
It may be more elegant but still not better.
star is even more elegant as you do not need to specify -z
because of auto-format detection.
Jörg
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