[Techtalk] decompressing tar.bz2 files

[John Clarke]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:11:54 -0500, ed orphan wrote:

> tar -vxj rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2  does
> nothing at all. 

You're missing '-f'.  Try tar -vxjf rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2 instead.

> tar -x rp9codecs-20040626.tar  does nothing.
> It just hangs.  Same with a tar -t command.

Same again, you need to use '-f' to give tar a filename.


Cheers,

John
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