gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file

Question

My bash fu is not what it should be.

I want to create a little batch script which will copy a list of directories into a new zip file.

There are (at least) t

Answer 1

In case, you are looking for compressing a directory, the following command can help.

pbzip2 compresses directories using parallel implementation

tar cf  --use-compress-prog=pbzip2