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You also don't need the dash for the short options.
Also, if you're compressing with bzip2 and have archives bigger than a few megabytes I'll like you a lot more if you do it with --use-compress-prog=pbzip2
I think the
-jalso compresses with bzip2 but I'm not sure if this is defined behavior or just a shortcutThere's nothing technically wrong with using xjf rather than xzf, but it'll bite you if you ever use a non-linux platform as it's a GNU extension. I'm not even sure busybox tar supports it.