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SubjectRe: bunzip2 -c linux-2.2.10.tar.bz2 | untar -xvp
Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906161531420.1301-100000@uyema.net> Myles Uyema (myles@puck.nether.net) wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, CaT wrote:
> >> There is a patch ont he bzip2 homepage that lets tar use bzip2 when used
> >> with the -y switch just like it would use gzip when used with -z.
>
> > GNU tar 1.12 already uses the -I switch (capital i) for using bzip2
> > compression. Long options are --bzip2 or --bunzip2.
>
> GNU tar 1.12 DOES NOT uses neither -I switch nor --bzip2 / --bunzip2 ...

Just use the standard filter option:
tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf ...

Or put it a /usr/local/bin/bztar or whatever:
#!/bin/sh
tar --use-compress-program bzip2 $@

But this is really OT.

--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)

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