And your answer is by no means correct.
The "x" is "eXtract" command signifier while the "z" that Brian is familiar with is the option signifier for gZip/gunZip compression / de-compression. The "j" signifies for Bzip2 compression / de-compression.
Randall Schulz
At 09:07 2003-02-04, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
Substitute the "x" with a "j" in your tar command.
This is by no means a Cygwin question, by the way :\
rlc
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Henning, Brian wrote:
> I would like to uncompress a .tar.bz2 file. I know how to uncompress .tar.gz
> files with the command tar xvzf archive.tar.gz. is there are similar command for
> .tar.bz2 files?
>
> thanks,
> b
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