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How to create .tar.bz2 file in a single command

December 06, 2008

By: Neo

The tar command doesn’t support any option for running bzip2 automatically after creating taball. The following example shows how to create the archive with .tar.bz2 in a single command without creating intermediate archives. The output of “tar” is redirected to “bzip2” command to generate the target archive.

[neo@techpup ~]# tar -c myproject/ | bzip2 > myproject.tar.bz2

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