On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
<snip>
>
> Problem is that when I download Jigdo it comes in a format of
> jigdo-bin-0.6.8.tar.bz2
> and when I do a
> tar -xvzf jigdo-bin-0.6.8.tar.bz2
> I get the response that the file is not in gzip format.
>
> Now being quite unfamiliar with all the possibilities of how one untars this
> file I would high appreciate a little guidance in how this may be
> accomplished.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
bzcat <filename.tar.bz2> | tar -xv
A newer or patched tar might have a -j switch to let it work with bzip2
compression, but the above construct should work with any tar.
hth,
Greg
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