tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 dir/

Category: Archiving & Compression

tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 dir/

Create a bzip2-compressed tarball

Creates a bzip2-compressed tarball. bzip2 usually compresses better than gzip but is slower.
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