Unix tar commands to automatically gzip and bzip2 the tar files and gunzip and bunzip2 tar/zipped files

Created: 6 January 2006  Modified:

Originally published on chrislynch.info website.

Create a tar file and bzip2 it up.

tar cvjf filename.tar.bz2

Extract a tar file and bunzip2 at the same time.

tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2

Create a tar file and gzip it up.

tar cvzf filename.tar.gz

Extract a tar file and gunzip at the same time.

tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
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