Create a tar bz2 file Linux

Question

On my Linux machine  I wish to create a  tar bz2 file of a certain folder  Once I place myself in that folder  in the terminal   what do I type in the terminal command line to place the compressed folder in the home directory of my machine   Let s say I am in the folder  home user folder  In the folder  folder  are several files  txt   c etc   How do I compress that folder of type  tar bz2 and place it in my  home directory   In the  home user folder  I ve tried sudo tar -cvjSf folder tar bz2 but get an error      tar  Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

User · Accepted Answer

You are not indicating what to include in the archive.

Go one level outside your folder and try:

sudo tar -cvjSf folder.tar.bz2 folder

Or from the same folder try

sudo tar -cvjSf folder.tar.bz2 *

Cheers!

User · Answer

Try this from different folder   sudo tar -cvjSf folder tar bz2 folder

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