On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:56:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:55:43PM +1000, Chris Share wrote: > > I've transferred these from my Debian CD and "un-bzipped" them. Now I've > > got a .tar package that I need to unpack. > > > > I've tried to unpack this file using tar -x kernel-source-2.4.18.tar > > however nothing happens. > > It's 'tar xf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar'. > > But next time you get whatever.tar.bz2, you can do it in one step: > > bzcat whatever.tar.bz2 | tar xf - > > Note the dash at the end. This by itself means from standard input. >
Or even better: tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2 I only found that one out last week. Swap the j for z for .tar.gz. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
