On Thursday 14 August 2003 2:07 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > Or even better: > > tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2 > > I only found that one out last week. Swap the j for z for .tar.gz. Oh, that's interesting - I always thought the f had to come at the end since it refered to the filename following. The man pages show it always last. I religiously stick to that. So much for yet another religious rite... -- richard