[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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