Re: tar( bzip2 parts of manpage )
On Monday 10 March 2008 00:19:33 Danny Pansters wrote: Note that both bsdtar and bzip2 are in base and have been for a while so it seems like a logical feature for bsdtar. Knowing whether its a gzip or bzip2 compressed is easy to see from magic numbers. And done by the fabolous base library: libarchive(3). -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tar( bzip2 parts of manpage )
Hi, I never used built-in bzip functionality of tar, but I like bzip2 more than gzip, so I just searched and found following: -j (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with bzip2(1). In extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes bzip2 compression automatically when reading archives. and -y (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with bzip2(1). In extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes bzip2 compression automatically when reading archives. what's going on there? I tested the -j option, works good. I created a file.tar.bz2 and like the manpage describes, tar -cvf is enough to unpack the tarball, Is that a FreeBSD feature, how is it on other platforms? Is bzip2 used, or is that build in as a tar? Cheers - Markus Klaschka MKDev - Markus Klaschka Development http://www.mkdev.eu Spain: 0034 - 63 747 23 07 UK: 0044 - 750 910 2718 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: mark-use IRC: mark-use @ irc.freenode.net : #freebsd, ##security, #freebsd-src, #bsdforen.de, #bsdgroup.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar( bzip2 parts of manpage )
On Sunday 09 March 2008 23:52:59 Markus Klaschka wrote: Hi, I never used built-in bzip functionality of tar, but I like bzip2 more than gzip, so I just searched and found following: -j (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with bzip2(1). In extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes bzip2 compression automatically when reading archives. and -y (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with bzip2(1). In extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes bzip2 compression automatically when reading archives. what's going on there? I tested the -j option, works good. I created a file.tar.bz2 and like the manpage describes, tar -cvf is enough to unpack the tarball, you mean tar xvf Is that a FreeBSD feature, how is it on other platforms? Is bzip2 used, or is that build in as a tar? bsdtar != gtar In bsdtar -j (-y) indeed uses bzip2 to compress rather than gzip and upon unpacking it handles both tgz and tbz transparantly that's why you don't need to specify -j there (different from gtar IIRC). I think -j and -y are mainly there to be compatible with gtar but I'm not sure. Note that both bsdtar and bzip2 are in base and have been for a while so it seems like a logical feature for bsdtar. Knowing whether its a gzip or bzip2 compressed is easy to see from magic numbers. Cheers, Dan Cheers - Markus Klaschka MKDev - Markus Klaschka Development http://www.mkdev.eu Spain:0034 - 63 747 23 07 UK: 0044 - 750 910 2718 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype:mark-use IRC: mark-use @ irc.freenode.net : #freebsd, ##security, #freebsd-src, #bsdforen.de, #bsdgroup.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
