gzip bzip2

[Randall R Schulz]

Ronald,

And your answer is by no means correct.

The "x" is "eXtract" command signifier while the "z" that Brian is 
familiar with is the option signifier for gZip/gunZip compression / 
de-compression. The "j" signifies for Bzip2 compression / de-compression.

Randall Schulz


At 09:07 2003-02-04, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>Substitute the "x" with a "j" in your tar command.
>
>This is by no means a Cygwin question, by the way :\
>
>rlc
>
>On Tue, 4 Feb 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?
> >
> > thanks,
> > b


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