"Miguel A.L. Paraz" wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:31:01PM +0800, dwen wrote:
> > Somebody tell me how to uncompress this kind of file any.tar.bz2.
>
> if you use 'z' for gzip, use 'I' for bzip, e.g.
>
> tar Ixf any.tar.bz2
>
> or manually:
>
> bzcat any.tar.bz2 | tar Ixvf -
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In slackware and FreeBSD I used the command
tar yxvf file.tar.bz2 -C <destination directory>
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