On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: > > > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 > > > > To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option. > > That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and > gzip compression and handle it automatically.
You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for the info. -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
