On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:08:08PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > > tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found in archive > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Why can't tar handle a wildcard list like that? > > As a refugee from DOS/Windos/OS/2 etc etc.....I have a question. > > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of tar > over ZIP/RAR for example. > Well, there are a few:
- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) - gzip provides better compression than zip (bzip2 is even better but it takes lots of CPU) - RAR is non-free and so many Linux distributions won't include it by default Those are just a few. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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