On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:36 am, Benjamin Sher escribi�:
> Thanks to all of you who wrote in with the magic command for
> uncompressing tar.bz2 files. The two commands in question are:
> tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
> tar xvif filename.tar.bz2
Another,
Since you're using Kmail, I'll asume you're usin KDE. R-Click on
the .bz2 file and choose to open with Karchiver. This will then let you
choose a directory to extract the files to. Presto! Any kind of
archive, even Windoze zips, automagically ;)
Otherwise if you want to use the CL, I suggest you see 'man tar',
'cause the 'i' switch in one of the two commands you're contemplating
will:
-i, --ignore-zeros
ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)
while the 'j' switch will:
-j, --bzip
filter the archive through bzip2
which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin
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