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Micik

06-04-2006 10:06 AM

difference between linux archives

Hello friends,
can you explain me difference between tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives.
I know that tar arch is unpacked with tar xvfz filename, but don't know how to unpack .bz2 archive
Thanks

slackie1000

06-04-2006 10:17 AM

hi there,
you can use

Code:

tar xvjf blah_blah.tar.bz2

and

Code:

man bzip2

will explain a bit
regards,
slackie1000

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