Comments on: Create and Extract .gz,.bz2 Files in Debian

By: Anonymous coward

Anonymous coward — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:26:13 +0000

You can achieve much better compression ratios using the p7zip package

By: S. Keeling

S. Keeling — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:35:20 +0000

Hey, what have you got against afio?!?

Just kidding.

find /blah -depth -mount -print0 | \ afio -z -Z -P bzip2 -0 blah.afio \ -L blah.log

Have fun.

By: Flosse

Flosse — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:32:25 +0000

I agree, why did you leave the tar command out? I think nowadays tar and gzip or bzip go hand in hand. creating a bzip or gzip file is easy but with tar combined it can be made even nicer, the command is just longer.

My 2 cents

//Flosse

By: jd

jd — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:42:15 +0000

Just a couple suggestions, but for trivial utilities, you may want to just mention them as a one-liner and then link to additional documentation, HTML’d man pages like this: http://www.hmug.org/man/1/gzip.php or something more useful like this: http://badcomputer.org/unix/tar.bot . For this article in particular, I would suggest you mention “tar” since it is essential in archiving folders which is as common, if not more common, a task for the average user then archiving single files.