Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:50:06 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 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...
You better stick to that. "tar xvfj" tries to open a file called "j",
which is probably not what you wanted. Surprise, surprise :-)
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