tar + bunzip2

[John Voigt]

On 11/14/2003 08:53 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> 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

Hi,

You can also use the -j option to tar:

# tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2

HTH,

John V.
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