How I can make a .tar.bzip2 in one step?

Computer Tips - How I can make a .tar.bzip2 in one step?

Date: 2011jul12 OS: Linux Q. How I can make a .tar.bzip2 in one step? A. Use the newish j option of tar like this:

tar cvfj MyArchive.tar.bz2 MyTree

And to extract:

tar xvfj MyArchive.tar.bz2