Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

[Christophe Broult <cbroult@yahoo.com>]

"John Anderson" <jkanders@alpha.delta.edu> 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 compression. So you can say

tar cIf ... (to create a bzip2 compressed tar file)
tar tIf ... (to list its content)
tar xIf ... (to extract its content)
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> John Kerr Anderson                 
> jkanders@alpha.delta.edu         
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2               
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