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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

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