On 5/19/05, Voytek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to compress a web tree to copy to another system whilst leaving the
> original tree unaltered,
> do I need to 1st tar it and then gzip it, or is there a single step
> solution ?

The standard way to do this is:

tar jcf filename.tar.bz2 file1 file2...fileN

where each "fileX" can also be a directory.

--Amos
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