Quoth FRIGN: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:46:53 +0200 > FRIGN <d...@frign.de> wrote: > > > This is closer to the Unix-philosophy, however, as noted before, > > bzip2 is way more efficient than gzip. > > As a small addition, .tar.bz2 gets closer, but there's no easy way to > (b)zcat it.
I only read the manpage for gnu tar, so maybe it's not usefully standard, but tar supports -O, so something like this ought to work: bzcat < img.tar.bz2 | tar x -O
