Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
Mike Corbeil wrote:
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I
will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a
"y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's
Mike Corbeil wrote:
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I
will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a
"y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man"
page.
man or
Brian,
tar can interface directly with bzip2 as needed:
tar -cvf archive --use-compress-program bzip2 *
tar -xvf archive --use-compress-program bzip2
It all works beautifully (except that bzip2, as you would expect,
takes a very very very long time to do its job).
"Brian T. Schellenberger"
Ron Stodden wrote:
Brian,
tar can interface directly with bzip2 as needed:
tar -cvf archive --use-compress-program bzip2 *
tar -xvf archive --use-compress-program bzip2
It all works beautifully (except that bzip2, as you would expect,
takes a very very very long time to do its job).
Mike Corbeil wrote:
Does bzip2 take any longer than gzip?
Yes. TANSTAAFL ... bzip2 is based on arithmetic compression
which is more CPU-intensive but produces better compression
than gzip which is based on an enhanced LZW algorithm.
What ever happened to cpio? This one seems to have been
Wayne Petherick wrote:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
Read the documentation. There are man pages for bzip2 and tar.
That's the general recommendation for what to do, [first]. However,
I'll give you a little rap session on tar. I haven't used bzip2 and
bunzip2, yet,
Wayne Petherick wrote:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
Quickly, you can do it one of two ways.
$ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x
or
$ tar yxf file.tar.bz2
The first way uses "bzcat" to print out the uncompressed contents of the
.tar.bz2 file. Meaning that it's printing a
Matt Stegman wrote:
Quickly, you can do it one of two ways.
$ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x
No. This will not work: you must tell tar
that it is given a file through standard input
(tar's default input is the tape device, /dev/st0)
The correct command is:
$ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
I find .tar.gzip and .tgz files much more convenient becuase of the
integrated support for the gzip:
tar xvzf foo.tgz
does the whole thing.
This makes .tar.bz2 file, in my opinion, a lot less pleasent thatn
.tar.gzip files, even if they are slightly smaller.
Is there a version of tar with
In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I
will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a
"y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man"
page.
Yeah, I'm more a Unix person than a Linux person, so I checked "man"
rather
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 13:48 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
Yeah, I'm more a Unix person than a Linux person, so I checked "man"
rather than "info." But I checked "info" just now and it's even worse:
It claims that the "I" option does bzip rather than the "y" option.
You're right.
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I
will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a
"y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man"
page.
man or documentation page bug.
y option
I think ark works for that, it worked on my system at least once.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick mewed:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
Thanks,
Wayne
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
bzip2 -d then tar xvf as normal.
John
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
Thanks,
Wayne
bunzip2 file.tar.bz2
then
tar -xvf file.tar
Keith
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
Thanks,
Wayne
Wayne Petherick wrote:
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
bzip2 -cd yourfile.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
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