Re: tar.bz2?

[Neil Parker]

Joseph Anthny Griffo wrote,
>or you could use tar -xvIf some-name.tar.bz2  ...  --JG
>
>On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Kent Loobey wrote:
>
>> How do I unpack/uncompress a some-name.tar.bz2 file?

Only if your version of tar recognizes the "I" option.  Not all do.  The
version of tar on my machine (GNU tar 1.13) just says "tar: invalid
option -- I".

The "bzip2 -cd some-name.tar.bz2|tar xfv -" method is much more portable.

               - Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]