On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:45:58 +0800 "M.W. Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2?
`bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work.
So close:
bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
The '-' to tar means stdin/stdout
Hi,
You can also use the -j option to tar:
# tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2
HTH,
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