On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:05:26PM -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: > If you can successfully extract each bz2 file, then you should be able to > cat the results sequentially into a tar file or stream and then extract.... > If this listing script works, you should be OK... > for i in *.bz2 > do > cat $i | bunzip2 || { > echo "Error. Exiting." > exit 1 > } > done | tar tvf - > Later, > Larry Irwin >
Thanks. I didn't use your script, but I was able to unzip all but one of the files. File 3029, of the 4282 files, had unrecoverable errors. All the others were turned into: rec0nnnncarols051011x.tbz I concatenated these into file xxx.tar and ran a extract. It worked, mostly. But it died at the place where there was a missing piece. I think I need some kind of filler that allows tar to get past the glitch and keep going. Or maybe I just have to be satisfied with only 3/4 recovery. Are there any known approaches that recover the data following the bad spot? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:34 AM > Subject: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar > > > >I have a big .tbz file that I need to unzip and read, but I got a > >error message that suggested I try bzip2recover. So I ran > >bzip2recover and it produced 4282 files named: > >rec0nnnncarols051011x.tbz.bz2 > >where nnnn is the numbers 0001 through 4282. > > > >I am in the process of unzipping these files, but I don't know > >what to do next. These are pieces of a tar file. Should I extract > >them separately, or concatenate them and extract the concatenated > >file, or is there some other process step? > > > >Is there a HOW TO on this problem? Where? > >-- > >Paul E Condon > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]