Command to create a zip file from a given folder.

zip -r File.zip Folder/

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

Create a compressed tarball

tar -czf archive.tar file_name

This shell script will create a build of a firefox extension in linux. This is created according to my details(eg, the guid has @binnyva.com in it) – but you can modify it and use it yourself.

app=$1
folder=$2

if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
	echo "Useage: sh build.sh  []"

elif [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
	folder="$1@binnyva.com/"
fi

rm $app.xpi
cp -r $folder temp
cd temp
rm -rf .git

zip -r $app.xpi .>/dev/null
mv $app.xpi ..
cd ..
rm -rf temp
echo "Built $app successfully"

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

sudo yum install unrar

How to read a big text file that is tarballed – without extracting the whole thing…

bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head -10

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/