Lok at the example from http://www.computerhope.com/unix/utar.htm:
Creating a tarred file that is compressed with bzip
tar -cjvf test.tbz home/
Adding the j option to the tar command enables tar to compress files and directories using bzip. In the above example the home directory and all its subdirectories are added to the compressed test.tbz file.
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