tar + bunzip2

Bill Davidson harley7
Mon May 17 11:55:43 PDT 2004


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:53 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500
> John Voigt <jvoigt at reclamation.dnr.state.in.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > You can also use the -j option to tar:
> > 
> > # tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2
> 
> My tar does not list this. If the file is gzip'd, then the 'z' option
> can be used as you suggest. I really need to update my work desktop. I
> see this option on a newer box.

Perhaps your version uses 'I' instead of 'j'.

Bill


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