Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:56:08PM -0500, leroyljr@ccsi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:55:43PM +1000, Chris Share wrote:
> > I've transferred these from my Debian CD and "un-bzipped" them. Now I've 
> > got a .tar package that I need to unpack.
> > 
> > I've tried to unpack this file using tar -x kernel-source-2.4.18.tar 
> > however nothing happens.
> 
> It's 'tar xf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar'.
> 
> But next time you get whatever.tar.bz2, you can do it in one step:
> 
> 	bzcat whatever.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
> 
> Note the dash at the end. This by itself means from standard input.
> 	

Or even better:

tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2

I only found that one out last week.  Swap the j for z for .tar.gz.

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