Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Reinehr
With COL 3.1 you can use the long option "--use-compress-program=bzip2". Check out `info tar` for all the long & short options. cmr On Friday 14 November 2003 07:35 pm, M.W. Chang wrote: > Even COL 3.1 doesn't have the -j and --bzip option. I will use the > bzcat2 | tar - method. thanks. > > >>>

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
Even COL 3.1 doesn't have the -j and --bzip option. I will use the bzcat2 | tar - method. thanks. >>># tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 > Yup. I'm running various SuSE distributions from 8.1-9.0 and they all > have this option. My only remaining Caldera box (eD2.4), however, does > not. It appears to have

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 22:30, Kurt Wall wrote: > See also: > > $ tar -xf --bzip file.tar.bz2 > or > $ bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - A.K.A. How many ways to skin a cat -- Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.7K bytes, Bill Davidson blathered: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:53 +0100 > Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500 > > John Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > You can also use the -j option to tar: > > > > > > # tar -xjvf file

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Davidson
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:53 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500 > John Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can also use the -j option to tar: > > > > # tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 > > My tar does not list this. If the file is gzip'd, the

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread John Voigt
On 11/14/2003 10:20 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500 John Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use the -j option to tar: # tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 My tar does not list this. If the file is gzip'd, then the 'z' option can be used as you suggest. I really n

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500 John Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also use the -j option to tar: > > # tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 My tar does not list this. If the file is gzip'd, then the 'z' option can be used as you suggest. I really need to update my work desktop. I see this op

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread John Voigt
On 11/14/2003 08:53 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: 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 st

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: > how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2? > > `bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work. Define "didn't work". -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EM

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
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 > > -- >.~.

tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang
how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2? `bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^9:44pm up 4 days, 10:37, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.07, 1.06 _