tar + bunzip2

[Mike Reinehr]

With COL 3.1 you can use the long option "--use-compress-program=bzip2". Check 
out `info tar` for all the long & short options.

cmr

On Friday 14 November 2003 07:35 pm, M.W. Chang wrote:
> Even COL 3.1 doesn't have the -j and --bzip option. I will use the
> bzcat2 | tar - method. thanks.
>
> >>># tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2
> >
> > Yup. I'm running various SuSE distributions from 8.1-9.0 and they all
> > have this option. My only remaining Caldera box (eD2.4), however, does
> > not. It appears to have been added in newer versions of GNU tar.

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