zip files using bzip2

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,

Say I've got a file /tmp/tempfile.txt which contains a list of files with full path.

Now I would wish to take all filenames in that tempfile as arguments and zip them in a single archived file. So how could I archive this?

Seems like I need to use the xargs command?

Thanks

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bzip2, and UNIX compressors in general, don't work that way. You'll have to put them in a container like tar to put them in a single file.

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Thanks for your reply.

Could you please show me a sample how tar takes arguments (file names with full paths) from a .txt file and zip them in a single file?

Thanks

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xargs tar -rcf file.tar < files.txt
bzip2 file.tar
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Hi Corona,

Thanks for your advice. I have tried that way but unfortunately only a few of files in that list (files.txt) were zipped? Where are the other files?

Thanks

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They should all be inside file.tar.bz2

Did any of the filenames in the list contain spaces?