Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Armin Wegner
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 >compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Use 'tar xIf aaa.tar.bz2' in slink. The 'I' is for bzip2.

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Howdy, hi there is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) huh !?! pipes are your friend bunzip2 -dc aaa.tar.bz2 | tar xvvf - Nico OK

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Alec Smith
give tar -xvvfI a try. Its the I which does the unBzip2ing on atleast slink. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) > > Nico > > -- > --

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Peter Makholm
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) The slink version of tar does this. >From the manual: NAME tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility [...]

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Nico, On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) bzip2 -dc .tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - works with any tar; bzip2 -d uncompresses and -c sends output to stdo

[DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? --