Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E3FEFE3.7030606@lapo.it> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:52:51 +0100 From: Lapo Luchini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030114 X-Accept-Language: it, en, fr, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Henning, Brian" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gzip bzip2 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henning, Brian wrote: >I would like to uncompress a .tar.bz2 file. I know how to uncompress .tar.gz >files with >the command tar xvzf archive.tar.gz. is there are similar command for >.tar.bz2 files? > > Just as "z" means "use gzip", there is "j" that means "use bzip2". BTW do you nkow that "x" is "extract", "t" is "test" (i.e. print to screen every file extracted), "f" is "file" (i.e. following parameters is the filename to extract from) xzvf is not a magic mantra word 0=) This and other in the almighty "man tar" =) -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/