Hello all,

I have 4 tar.bz2's on my server as you can see if the following screenshot.

http://screensnapr.com/u/1om5sg.png

I am trying to extract them all, this is the command I tried

This command seems to extract the

u.tar.bz2.00 100% with no issues. However, once it goes to the next one ( or one of the others, I can't be sure which is the culprit) I get an error like this.

That error comes up then it quits. Basically the only one that seems to fully extract is the .tar.bz2.00

Any help on this would be great, I have many images that I need to get outa of the tars.

Thanks!

Hi, welcome to LQ!

How did you create those split tar-balls?

You need to make sure the files are concatenated in the proper order (this is not guaranteed). Do the files have alphabetic names, corresponding to their original order? If not, you cannot do what you are trying to do.

If they do, simply put them together, then untar them as a separate action:

$ cat *.bz2 > assembled.bz2
$ tar -xjf assembled.bz2 -C u

The '-C" argument tells tar to use a different directory than the source. Again, it's imperative that the files be assembled in the correct order, and this requires them to have alphabetically ordered names.

This is the command I used.

As far as the files that I tar-balled, no they are just randomly generated file names that were uploaded via a program. So there is no order to the original files (the pictures)

I suggested a solution. Did it work? My comment was not about the order of the original files, but the order of the split segments. They must be reassembled in the same order as the original split.

I assumed that since they were split and named .00, .01, .02 those are the order. If this is not true then I have no clue how to tell which order they are in.

Again, I suggested a solution. Did it work?