Re: Copress a directory

[Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:20:02PM +1100, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
> Rocky Ou wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to compress a directory so that I could SCP it 
> > to remote server more quikly? I tried gzip -cf directoryName it does 
> > not work, And then I tried tar -vf DirectoryNme no rerult as well. I 
> > may blind but I could not find solution in gzip --help as well.
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance!
> tar -cvj directory -f directory.tar.bz2

Or, for those who think it is a sin to use '-' when it isn't required:

tar jcvf dir.tar.bz2 dir

for bzip2 compression, or for gzip:

tar zcvf dir.tar.gz dir

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