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Re: a quick support question
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pohl |
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Re: a quick support question |
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:43:06 -0600 |
In addition to this, recent versions of gnu tar can automatically
filter through bzip2 with the "j" switch just like the "z" switch
filters through gzip:
$ tar jxf foo.tar.bz2
ian wrote:
> man bzip2!
>
> bunzip2 blah.bz2
>
> - ian
>
> scott francis wrote:
> >
> > i've been a long time absent from this discussion group.
> > trying to get a snapshot of the code, i grabbed one of the
> > daily snapshots. however, it is in a .tar.bz2 format which
> > i'm not positive how to unpack... my standard tar zxf blah.tar.bz2
> > command didn't do the trick :)
> >
> > can anyone send me a quick pointer?
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