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[Rick Stevens]

On 06/08/2010 03:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:55 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
>> Me, too!
>
> You too what? Oh, I see you're top-posting. Please don't do that.
>
>> How about the j option?
>
> Why don't you just try it? I've no idea and don't really care as I use
> gzip in these situations. Tell us what you discover.

The j option tells tar to use bzip2 instead of gzip.  It compresses
tighter, at a commensurate increase in CPU load.
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