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Old 03-07-2008, 03:28 PM
Ken Teague
 
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Default Re: How to extract a tbz file.

Dan C wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:29:32 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote:
>
>> Can somebody tell me please how to extract a tbz file in Debian?
>>
>> (I tried bunzip2, but get unknown command.
>> doing a apt-get install bunzip2 can't find it)

>
> Perhaps: tar -xjvf <filename>


I'm pretty sure the hyphen is depreciated.

tar xvjf <filename>

Henk,

x = extract
v = verbose
j = bzip2 file extraction support (since it's a .tbz file)
f = filename to extract


- Ken
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