Hi Nico,
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2
> compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-)
bzip2 -dc <filename>.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -
works with any tar; bzip2 -d uncompresses and -c sends output to stdout
(the pipe), tar -f - reads stdin (the pipe) as input.
This does not leave and uncompressed file around, the original
compresseed tar-archive is left untouched.
So long -- Stephan
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