Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar

["Larry Irwin" <larryi@ccamedical.com>]

If you can successfully extract each bz2 file, then you should be able to 
cat the results sequentially into a tar file or stream and then extract....
If this listing script works, you should be OK...
for i in *.bz2
do
 cat $i | bunzip2  || {
   echo "Error. Exiting."
   exit 1
 }
done | tar tvf -
Later,
Larry Irwin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul E Condon" <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar


> I have a big .tbz file that I need to unzip and read, but I got a
> error message that suggested I try bzip2recover. So I ran
> bzip2recover and it produced 4282 files named:
> rec0nnnncarols051011x.tbz.bz2
> where nnnn is the numbers 0001 through 4282.
>
> I am in the process of unzipping these files, but I don't know
> what to do next. These are pieces of a tar file. Should I extract
> them separately, or concatenate them and extract the concatenated
> file, or is there some other process step?
>
> Is there a HOW TO on this problem? Where?
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>
>
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