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How to decompress a *.bz2 file?

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Tim Cowan

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Dec 12, 2001, 6:25:24 AM12/12/01
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what program from the command line can I use to decompress a *.bz2 file??

Thanks

Tim Cowan

Gaston Lagaffe

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Dec 12, 2001, 11:24:34 AM12/12/01
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Tim Cowan wrote:

to decompress a .bz2 file, just use bunzip2 file.bz2.
If it is a tar.bz2 file, tar -yxvf file.tar.bz2 often work...

Christoph W.

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Dec 12, 2001, 3:17:36 PM12/12/01
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Gaston Lagaffe wrote:

try tar -xvIf file.tar.bz2

or simply tar --help ;)
or man tar

glytchbinary

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Dec 12, 2001, 3:55:38 PM12/12/01
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Christoph W. wrote:

not trying to be mean or anything, but after the first reply answered
his question coreectly why the hell would you answer again with the
same(almost) answer?

Bit Twister

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Dec 12, 2001, 4:36:42 PM12/12/01
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In article <3C17C36F...@attbi.com>, glytchbinary wrote:
>
> not trying to be mean or anything, but after the first reply answered
> his question coreectly why the hell would you answer again with the
> same(almost) answer?

Maybe they did not read the follow ups before posting
and did not know how to cancel/delete their post.

Maybe the follow up did not get to their news server before they posted.

I did not check, but if they are on the ATTBI newservers, the follow up
may have disappeared from their news reader and they did not see it.
I have seen 2 replys in the group and when I went to open them there
were 0 posts.
Next time I started my news reader, there they were.

Ashok Aiyar

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Dec 12, 2001, 5:47:59 PM12/12/01
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:55:38 GMT,
glytchbinary (glytch...@attbi.com) wrote:

>>>> what program from the command line can I use to decompress a *.bz2
>>>> file??
>>>

>>> to decompress a .bz2 file, just use bunzip2 file.bz2.
>>> If it is a tar.bz2 file, tar -yxvf file.tar.bz2 often work...
>>>
>> try tar -xvIf file.tar.bz2
>

> not trying to be mean or anything, but after the first reply answered
> his question coreectly why the hell would you answer again with the
> same(almost) answer?

What makes the second answer particularly odd is that to the best of
my knowledge, GNU tar doesn't have a "-I" option. So not only is it
(possibly) redundant, it is also likely to be wrong.

Ashok

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Ashok Aiyar
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Dennis K Grow

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Dec 12, 2001, 6:11:23 PM12/12/01
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Ashok Aiyar wrote:

-I and -y are deprecated and will not be supported in future releases. Use
-j for bz2 files.

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