Eric Maryniak wrote:
>
> Will the Gnu 'tar' released with SuSE 6.1 have support for bzip archives
> (often names like foobar.tar.bz2, compare to foobar.tar.gz)?
> So that you can like, extract etc. with commands like:
>
> tar ytvf foobar.tar.bz2
> tar yxvf foobar.tar.bz2
>
> Last time (december 1998) I check Gnu's tar, the 'y' flag still had to
> be put in with a patch from the bzip2 site.
Although it's more of a pain, you can do it thusly:
tar xvf --use-compress-program=bzip2 foo.tar.bz2
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