Of course the price you pay is a 25-50% performance hit(highly dependent on the
CPU
MHz). Personally I only bzip things that I don't often use, as the increased
decompression speed of gzip is worth the small loss of compression capacity.
For instance, tar Ixvf linux-kernel-source.tar.bz2 takes s
Ah, I missed that...
Thanks,
Onno
At 11:55 AM 10/29/99 -0500, David Blackman wrote:
>Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags
>-xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file.
>
>--dave
>
>On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Are
At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
>What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
>decompressed?
The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15%
then gzip.
To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d
To leave the file compressed: bzcat | tar -x
Regards,
Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags
-xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file.
--dave
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
>
> > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
> >
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:22:55 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"?
Tar archives compressed with bzip2. Uncompress using "tar -xvfI
foo.tar.bz2".
HTH,
Ray
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
> decompressed?
They are compressed with b-zip. It's like gzip but better compression.
You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.
What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
decompressed?
Thaks in advance,
Manuel Arenaz
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