[olug] tar ?? i think

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

If you happen to run into a file with the extension filename.tar.bz2 (or
.bz), you can use a similar tar command to extract it.  Instead of using
the z flag, use the j flag.

tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

bunzip2 filename.bz2

I spent a not-insignificant amount of time figuring that out the first
time.  :)

Andrew Holm-Hansen

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:37, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> At Thu, 03 Jul 03, Unidentified Flying Banana Nathan Brown, said:
> > I have a file for flash player installation the file is  
> > "install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz".  I don't know how to install it.  I'm 
> > sorry I use to know this but I have forgotten even how to look it up.
> 
> What you're dealing with is a 'tar.gz' file, which is a gzip compressed
> tar file.
> 
> Basically, what tar does is simply combine a group of files into a
> single file.  gzip then compresses the new single file.
> 
> In order to access install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz, you would run:
> 
>  gzip -d install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz
> 
> Which would give you a resulting file without the ".gz" extension.  You
> then want to untar this file.  You do that with: 
> 
>  tar -xvf install_flash_player_6_linux.tar
> 
> The -x means you want to extract, the -v means to be verbose, and
> the -f means that the next thing will be a file name to operate on.
> 
> And now that I've gone through the details, I'll mention that because
> this is such a common procedure, tar actually has support built in for
> compressing and decompressing tar files.  So, instead of the above two
> steps, you can just do:
> 
>  tar -zxvf install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz
> 
> If you notice the -z option that was added, that directs tar to treat
> this as a compressed archive.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> > thanks,
> > Nate