Bug 98586

Summary: bzip2 example error
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Xiao, Haili <haili>
Component: rhl-gsgAssignee: John Ha <jha>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: John Ha <jha>
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URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-managing-compressing-archiving.html#S3-MANAGING-BZIP2
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Description Xiao, Haili 2003-07-04 04:04:26 UTC 
Description of problem:

in the guide: Red Hat Linux 9 "Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide"
(URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-
guide/s1-managing-compressing-archiving.html#S3-MANAGING-BZIP2)
when talking about bzip2, there is a command example:

/************ Ctrl+V from about URL *********

You can use bzip2 to compress multiple files and directories at the same time 
by listing them with a space between each one:

bzip2 filename.bz2 file1 file2 file3 /usr/work/school 

The above command compresses file1, file2, file3, and the contents of the 
/usr/work/school directory (assuming this directory exists) and places them 
in a file named filename.bz2. 

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In fact, this command is a bad one, it does not work at all.
As a "man bzip2" said:
bzip2 expects a list of file names to accompany the command-line flags.
Each  file is replaced by a compressed version of itself, with the name
"original_name.bz2". 

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Other format&version of this guide might have the same error.

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Comment 1 John Ha 2003-07-07 19:51:59 UTC 
Thank you for the report. You are correct, the command does not work. For
compressing multiple files, tar should be used prior to using bzip2.

The passage will be corrected and an errata will be posted shortly.

Thanks again.