gzip bzip2

Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it
Tue Feb 4 16:52:00 GMT 2003


Henning, Brian wrote:

>I would like to uncompress a .tar.bz2 file. I know how to uncompress .tar.gz
>files with
>the command tar xvzf archive.tar.gz. is there are similar command for
>.tar.bz2 files?
>  
>
Just as "z" means "use gzip", there is "j" that means "use bzip2".
BTW do you nkow that "x" is "extract", "t" is "test" (i.e. print to 
screen every file extracted), "f" is "file" (i.e. following parameters 
is the filename to extract from)
xzvf is not a magic mantra word 0=)

This and other in the almighty "man tar" =)

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Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
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