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 up. Sven