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On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
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> > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
> >
> > To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.
>
> That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and
> gzip compression and handle it automatically.
You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for
the info.
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