On Tuesday 19 February 2002 02:11 pm, you wrote:
> | tar -xfj *.tar.bz2
>
> The 'f' has to be the last parameter, because the next character will
> be interpreted as the start of a file name. (At least for GNU tar).
>
> I suggest "tar jxvf foo.tar.bz2". ('v' for verbose).The version of GNU tar that comes with Red Hat/Mandrake doesn't care where you put the f. I always use "tar xfvj whatever.tar.bz2" without any problems. "tar xf vj whatever.tar.bz2" will fail though. Matt _______________________________________________ Licq-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-devel
