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Re: [TCLUG:7144] bzip and tar



Also,

tar -yxvf

will bunzip2 and untar a bzip2-ed tar file.

Gabe
> 
> > Okay, I just compiled tar 1.13, hoping that it would automagically
> > add in an option to handle bzip2 archives.  I tried running it,
> > and it didn't say anything.  Searching through the Changelog, I
> > find out that the options for using bzip2 have been _removed_..  
> > Probably some stupid licensing issue..  Bah!!
> > 
> > Is that what the 'b' is for?  BSD-style license? (as opposed to
> > 'g' on GNU gzip..)
> 
> No.  Bzip2 uses a different compression algorithm.  It's a different
> program alltogether.
> 
> ^chewie
> 
> http://nerp.net/~chewie  <<--- Check it out!  I'm selling my truck!
> 
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