On Thursday 6 November 2008, 11:39, Florian Philipp wrote: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How to extract lzma archives? > > > > by lzma archive, you probably mean a lzma-compressed tar archive. > > You can extract them with > > lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f - > > This command line can be simplified: > unlzma -c compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar xv
why not directly tar --lzma -xvf compressedarchive.tar.lzma then? (I hope I got the syntax right)