Re: Stupid question #477 - how to unpack .bz2 files

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Richard wrote:

> >  I actually tried to send this one last night, but it appears to have
> > got lost in the ether.
> > 
> >  How do I unpack .bz2 files? I`ve tried gzip and zip/unzip but that
> > doesn`t help.
> 
> gunzip filname.tar.bz
> 
> took me months to work that out :-)

Richard, if that works on your system, you must have some dashed funny
symlinks in /usr/bin ;)) Doesn't bunzip2 do the job??

Unless they've folded the bzip2 algorithm into gzip, which would be highly
amusing. Not.

Cheers,

Alex.


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