bz2 Compress a Folder [Scripts]
Submitted by shawn on Tue, 06/29/2010 - 21:57
I use a ton of bash scripts when I'm working at my Mac or at a Linux workstation. It's time to document these things.
This is a real simple one. It expects a single parameter and it expects that parameter to be a folder name that you'd like to bz2 compress. The tar.bz2 compressed folder is written to the same parent directory as the folder you pass as a parameter.
#!/bin/bash
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
tar -cjf "${1}.tar.bz2" "$1"
else
echo "error: expected directory as first parameter"
echo "useage: $ dirtobz2 path/to/folder"
fi
More to come! I have tons of these things.
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