tar + bunzip2

[Jean Sagi]

This may help

23: chucho at localhost:/usr/local/netscape$ tar --version | grep tar
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25

24: chucho at localhost:/usr/local/netscape$ tar --help | grep zip
   -j, --bzip2                        filtra el archivo a trav?s de bzip2
   -z, --gzip, --ungzip               filtra el archivo a trav?s de gzip

Chucho!


Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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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Atte,


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