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On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 08:00:30AM -0400, John Nolan wrote: > > You may have a filename that looks like whatever.tar.bz2 . This is > > another compressed file. You must first run bzip on it then use tar -xvf > > [filename] to extract it. > > I've never used bzip, but I imagine it will work directly from > stdin/stout like gzip, so I guess that this would work > (someone correct me if this won't work, I don't have bzip here): > > bunzip < file.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - Debian's tar supports the I option (if the bzip2 package is installed). tar xvIf file.tar.bz2 -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting cjf@netaxs.com | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug