[Linux-disciples] bzip2 and directories

[Stephen R Laniel]

Probably a silly question: how does one bzip a directory and
all its subdirectories? I looked in the man page and in
/usr/share/doc, and nowhere do I find the word 'recursive'.
There is no -r option, and trying to bzip the directory name
(on the assumption that it'll recursively zip that directory
and produce directoryName.bz2) produces an error.

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