[plug] Compressed file extension .bz2

[Shannon Carver]

Just thought I'd add, so as not to confuse the original poster, if the
file extension does not contain .tar.bz2 (i.e is not a bzip2ed tar file)
then the tar command will work incorrectly.

 

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Carl Gherardi
Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 4:19 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Compressed file extension .bz2

 

tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2

On 10/7/05, landerson <easygoing at aijv.com.au> wrote:

Downloaded a file with the extension   .bz2   which program should we
use to extract the files with.
Cannot recall having come across this extension before.

Thanks

Laurie
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