[Techtalk] tar xfvj

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Mon Mar 1 19:45:41 EST 2004


I'm seeing this weirdo tar invocation in the docs on kernel building:

$ tar xfvj /path/to/linux-2.6.0-test7.tar.bz2

j is not a gnu tar option, and the order looks screwy- shouldn't f come last, 
next to the filename?  Where is this stuff coming from?

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