Of course the price you pay is a 25-50% performance hit(highly dependent on the
CPU
MHz). Personally I only bzip things that I don't often use, as the increased
decompression speed of gzip is worth the small loss of compression capacity.
For instance, tar Ixvf linux-kernel-source.tar.bz2 takes
At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they
decompressed?
The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15%
then gzip.
To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d file
To leave the file compressed: bzcat file | tar -x
Ah, I missed that...
Thanks,
Onno
At 11:55 AM 10/29/99 -0500, David Blackman wrote:
Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags
-xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file.
--dave
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they
decompressed?
Thaks in advance,
Manuel Arenaz
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they
decompressed?
They are compressed with b-zip. It's like gzip but better compression.
You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:22:55 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2?
Tar archives compressed with bzip2. Uncompress using tar -xvfI
foo.tar.bz2.
HTH,
Ray
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Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags
-xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file.
--dave
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they
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