tar + bunzip2

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:45:58 +0800
"M.W. Chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:

> 
> how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2?
> 
> `bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work.

So close:


	bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

The '-' to tar means stdin/stdout


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