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

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

Original question:
>  How do I unpack .bz2 files? I`ve tried gzip and zip/unzip but that
> doesn`t help.

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:59:48PM +0100, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> Most distributions come with a program bzip2 (and associated bunzip2 - but 
> technically its the same program). Just run:
> 	bunzip2 <file>
> or
> 	bzip2 -d <file>

And some distributions come with a tar which is patched to handled
bzip2ed tar files:

     tar xIvvfp fred.tar.bz2

The 'I' option does what 'z' does for gzipped tar files.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc [at] mcc.ac.uk
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