Re: [MLUG] .bz2 extension

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

if it is *.tar.bz2 file, you can do
tar -yxvf *.tar.bz2    or
tar -jxvf *.tar.bz2

if it is a *.tar.gz
then you can do
tar -zxvf *.tar.gz


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Jason McIntosh wrote:

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> Use bunzip2 and bzip2 to handle these.
> Cheers!
> Jason
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> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:55 AM, Asim wrote:
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> > This may sound like a stupid question but I cannot
> > figure out how to
> > decompress any files with the .bz2 extension.
> > asim
> >
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