Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

[Jean-Louis Debert]

Matt Stegman wrote:
> Quickly, you can do it one of two ways.
> 
> $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x

No. This will not work: you must tell tar
that it is given a file through standard input
(tar's default input is the tape device, /dev/st0)

The correct command is:

  $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 


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