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). :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 14:09:01 up 11 days, 17 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/patches FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
