Matthias B. wrote these words on 07/17/06 13:51 CST:
> I thought you might be interested in one of my "Can't live without this
> anymore" patches. Enjoy.
>
> Description: 
>   tar xzf foo.tar.bz2  - if you don't see what's wrong with this, you need
>   this patch. It makes the "z" option behave like "j" if the archive name
>   given ends in ".bz2". IOW, forget "j", always use "z".

Or, don't use either j or z and simply use xf from now on and don't
worry about it. TAR doesn't need z or j any more, it figures it out
on its own (at least versions of TAR in the last year or so, anyway).

:-)

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Randy

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