[Linux-disciples] bzip2 and directories

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:41:04AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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.

Silly indeed.  It's sort of like asking why mutt doesn't have its own
editor.

tar cfj directoryName.tar.bz2 directory/

(for bzip2)

tar cfz directoryName.tar.bz2 directory/

(for gzip)

That whole "zip a directory" thing is very Win32ish.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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