Brian,
tar can interface directly with bzip2 as needed:
tar -cvf <archive> --use-compress-program bzip2 *
tar -xvf <archive> --use-compress-program bzip2
It all works beautifully (except that bzip2, as you would expect,
takes a very very very long time to do its job).
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> I find .tar.gzip and .tgz files much more convenient becuase of the
> integrated support for the gzip:
>
> tar xvzf foo.tgz
>
> does the whole thing.
>
> This makes .tar.bz2 file, in my opinion, a lot less pleasent thatn
> .tar.gzip files, even if they are slightly smaller.
>
> Is there a version of tar with integrated .bzip support someplace?
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
