Arthur Marsh wrote:
bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0
Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz see man tar HTH Wackojacko