Man you guys give weird instructions :-) The fastest way is to replace the "z" in tar *zvf with "I". for instance: tar xIvf my.tar.bz2 tar tIvf my.tar.bz2 tar cIvf my.tar.bz2 Non of this pipe-stuff :) Later, :-) JW At 10:49 PM 8/20/2000 -0700, you wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
br> You have to make sure you have bzip2 installed...and you can just br> type ... br> br> bzip2 -d <file> br> br> Then untar it..there may be a quicker way..but this works. br> br> BTW..bzip2 is on the SuSE CD's. br> br> -->so to bother u ...but i've downloaded br> -->alsa-driver-0.5.9b.tar.bz2 br> --> br> -->-how do i 'untar'/'unzip' this file? br>
You can do it all in one sweep with the following:
bzip2 -cd <filename>.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
which will extract the contents of the package to the current directory leaving the package in it's tar.bz2 form. Some will opt for Ben's way, others will opt for this way, neither is right or wrong. All depends on which way your most comfortable with in the end.
br> -- br> Cheers, br> br> Ben Rosenberg br> mailto:ben@whack.org br> ------------------------- br> "The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." br> br>
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