Find all files with ‘.log’ extention and make an bzip archive

find /var/log -name '*.log' | tar cv --files-from=- | bzip2 > log.tar.bz2

Decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2

tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2

create a tarball compressed into bzip2

tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir

extract a tarball into / tmp

tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp

Decompress a file called ‘file.bz2′

bunzip2 file.bz2

Create a uncompressed tarball

tar -cvf archive.tar file

Create an archive rar called ‘file.rar’

rar a file.rar test_file

RAR Support in Linux is easy - just install the unrar tool…

sudo yum install unrar

Compress all PHP output by adding this line to .htaccess file

php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler 

This is the method that I use to package a SVN Project. For CVS projects, the code is slightly different. Please note that the second line requires bash to work.

This is how I packaged nexty

svn checkout https://nexty.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nexty
find nexty/ -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
tar -czf nexty.tar.gz nexty/
rm -rf nexty/