[wellylug] Very Simple Command
Persian
persian13 at ihug.co.nz
Sun Oct 12 09:47:26 NZDT 2003
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:28:01 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
>
> I need to be able to extract .tar.gz & .tar.bz2 files from the command
> line.
> What are the 2 commands? I've looked in the man files, but I can't get
> it going how I want it.
>
> I want to be able to extract the file directly, keeping the original
> archive.
>
Well......... what do I know??? Not much at all!
the tar.gz I use tar zxvf filename.tar.gz
then I asked someone the other week about the bz2 and they said
tar -jxf filename.tar.bz2
I have not tried this, so it could be wrong!
Persian
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