Adri Verhoef wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 01:54:08 +0000, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> bzcat /home/philipp/trunk/dl/vim-7.1.tar.bz2 | tar -C
>> /home/philipp/trunk/build_i586 -xf -
>> tar: Read 5120 bytes from -
>>
>> Any idea why (re: the short read on "tar")?
>
> This is not a problem. Tar doesn't complain if you decompress the .bz2 file
> at
> first and then "tar -xf" the decompressed file (.tar). Tar doesn't know the
> size of the uncompressed file (yet) when it's still compressed because Tar is
> reading from stdin. Try this:
>
> (bzcat ~/.../.../vim-7.1.tar.bz2 ; dd bs=5120 if=/dev/zero count=1 ) |
> tar tvf -
>
> Does it help?
>
>
> Adri
> ᴠɪᴍ ⒎ ①
To unpack a .tar.bz2 archive, "canonical" ways are:
(a) bunzip2 archive.tar.bz2 ; tar -xvf archive.tar
or
(b) tar -jxvf archive.tar.bz2
The -v (verbose) is optional; I use it to "see" the list of unpacked file names.
Best regards,
Tony.
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