tar + bunzip2

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 0.7K bytes, Bill Davidson blathered:
> 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'.

See also:

$ tar -xf --bzip file.tar.bz2 
or
$ bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -

Kurt
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