On Friday 26 January 2018 00:43:24 Charlie S wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:51:47 +0000 Brian sent: > > On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 15:42:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 January 2018 15:14:24 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > Dear folks, > > > > > > > > I am trying to extract files from a tar xz file. > > > > > > > > The file is a kernel file. > > > > > > > > I ran the tar -xf command: > > > > [Snipped] > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > The above content, added by Maurice E. Heskett, is Copyright 2018 > > > by Maurice E. Heskett. > > > > I've deleted just about everything in your post because I do not > > know whether it is redistributable. Would you please clarify? > > > > -- > > Brian. > > After contemplation, my reply is: > > [quote] man xz can be quite educational ;-) [end quote] > > Is there something wrong with that? > > Charlie
Nope. The wheezy version of tar has apparently not been taught about xz files yet. Or has it?, -J is an alias for --xz acc my man page. Note uppercase J. A lowercase j=bzip2. So we both learned something. But what I've been upacking recently have all been images to dd to an sd card for booting these pi sized computer cards. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>