http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Reports.html#SEC7
Hi, I am a novice user (.tar). After reading (EDIT) THE TUTORIAL (good tutorial btw) It was clear that I could use tar + compression e.g. tar + j option (bzip) or tar + -z option (gzip) to create compressed archives. What was less obvious was tar can decompress compressed archives without -j or -z option? E.g. tar -xvf foo.tar will decompress foo.tar.bz2 or foo.tar.gz equally. [addition] after reading the (full) manual, I have got my answer: > Reading compressed archive is even simpler: you don't need to specify > any additional options as GNU tar recognizes its format automatically. > Thus, the following commands will list and extract the archive created > in previous example: A mention in the tutorial would have helped for a quick and dirty usage of .tar Regards, nomnex [Marc]
