Re: Bzip2 Compress directories

[NiftyCluster Tom Mitchell <niftycluster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, James Matthews <nytrokiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you get bzip2 to compress directories?

* All the files in a dir? ( you cannot compress the directory itself).

Try:
   find dir -type f -print | xargs bzip2 -v
or
   find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 bzip2 -v
or
   cd dir; bzip2 *

Do you want to Package all the files into a tar or cpio archive
so you can send it to someone else?

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