One Day One GNU/Linux Command ============================= bzip2 -- A Block-sorting file (de)compressor.
Summary: bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than the conventional compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. Example: $ bzip2 myfile -- Compress & Save it in myfile.bz2. Delete the input file. $ bzip2 -k myfile -- Same as above. But Don't delete the input file. $ bzip2 -d myfile.bz2 -- Decompress & Save it in myfile. Delete the input file. $ bzip2 -kd myfile.bz2 -- Same as above. But don't delete the input file. $ bzip2 -fd myfile.bz2 -- Force overwrite of output files (by default, do not overwrite the existing files). $ bzip2 -t myfile.bz2 -- Check the integrity of the compressed file. $ bzip2 -v myfile -- Show the detail status info about the operation. $ bzip2 -q myfile -- Suppress non-essential warning messages. $ tar -cjvf myfile.tar.bz2 mydir -- BZip2 thru TAR command. $ tar -xjvf myfile.tar.bz2 -- BUnZip2 thru TAR command. Read: man bzip2 HTH :) -- Bharathi S _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc