Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread staf
> I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? try "tar xIf name.tar.bz2" or "bzip2 -cd name.tar.bz2 | tar xf -" regards, -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTE

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:45:54PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: > tar xIf file.tar.bz2 will `bunzip2' and untar your files. The `I' is > for bzip2 compression. So you can say bzcat (not sure about exact name) is also useful: pipe the output to tar and you can leave the original .tar.bz2 zipped

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Christophe Broult
"John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? tar xIf file.tar.bz2 will `bunzip2' and untar your files. The `I' is for bzip2

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
this should work: tar -Ixvf your_file.tar.bz2 On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:19:58AM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? > >

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:19:58AM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? tar xvfI filename.tar.bz2 at least the tar version shipping

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? Just unzip and untar it with tar: tar xIf x.tar.bz2 ^ If you only want to unzip it, if this is of a

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Christoph Simon
> I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? bzip2 -cd kernel.tar.bz2 | tar xf - Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? he