using bzip2 with GNU tar
Because I can never remember the 'j':
tar jxvf archivefilename.tar.bz2
Also, this is my first post using e-blog.
posted by Steve Jenson at 12:56 PM
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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2 Comments:
Recent GNU tar releases auto-detect the compression format, so 'j' (and 'z') aren't needed anymore.
3:24 PM
Very cool. Thanks!
6:05 PM
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