In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I
will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a
"y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man"
page.
Yeah, I'm more a Unix person than a Linux person, so I checked "man"
rather than "info." But I checked "info" just now and it's even worse:
It claims that the "I" option does bzip rather than the "y" option.
PS: Does anybody know of a utility that will translate info into man
format?
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> I find .tar.gzip and .tgz files much more convenient becuase of the
> integrated support for the gzip:
>
> tar xvzf foo.tgz
>
> does the whole thing.
>
> This makes .tar.bz2 file, in my opinion, a lot less pleasent thatn
> .tar.gzip files, even if they are slightly smaller.
>
> Is there a version of tar with integrated .bzip support someplace?
>
> But the answer the original question, the easist way is
>
> bzcat foo.tar.gz2 | tar xvf -
>
> Mike Corbeil wrote:
> >
> > Wayne Petherick wrote:
> >
> > > How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension?
> > >
> >
> > Read the documentation. There are man pages for bzip2 and tar.
> >
> > That's the general recommendation for what to do, [first]. However,
> > I'll give you a little rap session on tar. I haven't used bzip2 and
> > bunzip2, yet, because I mostly work with gzip and therefore gunzip;
> > however, the tar part I've deal with before, and it's easy to learn from
> > the man page.
> >
> > Tip on unarchiving tar files or tar balls: The command is (drumroll
> > please) ...
> >
> > % tar xvf {filename}.tar
> >
> > If it's the only tar file in the directory, then the following will also
> > work (drumroll, again, please) ...
> >
> > % tar xvf *.tar
> >
> > If you want to view the contents of the tar file or ball without
> > unarchiving, then use tvf, instead of xvf. x => extraction and t=> toc
> > (table of contents).
> >
> > If you unarchive, delete the .tar file, and then decide you need to
> > re-tar, then copy the files to a separate, empty directory and run the
> > following
> >
> > % tar cv * -f {filename}.tar
> >
> > {filename} of course being what ever you want to name the file.
> >
> > For bz2 decompression and compression, refer to the man page on bzip2:
> >
> > % man bzip2
> >
> > The bzip2 executables or programs should be in one of your bin or sbin
> > directories, either under / or /usr. If you don't find the bzip2
> > programs, then you'll need to install them from the cdrom, and if not
> > there, then download and install.
> >
> > There are other tools which can be used and kpackage might work for
> > this. I believe that it works for .gz files (not entirely sure, though,
> > because I haven't explored kpackage much, yet); however, it does work
> > for .tar archives and rpm (supposedly for rpm anyway).
> >
> > If you're using kde and want to investigate this alternative, then bring
> > up kpackage and try it against your .tar.bz2 file.
> >
> > That's the fairly comprehensive pov from arrogant moi. Just kidding,
> > i.e., joking. Don't mind me, I joke once in a while; although, it ain't
> > no joke that you didn't bother reading the man pages, first. Tsk, tsk.
> >
> > If you want to become at all fluent with Linux/Unix, then you need to
> > use the reference documentation and learn about all there is and how to
> > access the different forms or formats. There's man, xman, info, as well
> > as kde Help, and other tools. After learning the basic Linux/Unix
> > commands, like cd, pwd, cp, rm, mv, cat, echo, id, who, whoami or "who
> > am i" (for those who forget who they are - joking, kind of), ..., the
> > next first lesson in learning to use Linux/Unix systems are the
> > documentation resources.
> >
> > mike
>
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