untar tar.bz2?

[S.D.Willie]

just curious as to how to unzip these and what is the command, what do i need......etc.
thanks

SD

[camelrider]

See "man bzip2" for details.
Basically "bunzip2 filename.bz2" unzips the file. Then use tar to separate the files as: "tar -xvf filename.tar"

[Linuxcool]

Try this: bzip2 -dc archive.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

[anton]

or u can do just : tar xfvj filename.tar.bz2

[Strike]

Originally posted by anton:
<STRONG>or u can do just : tar xfvj filename.tar.bz2</STRONG>

Actually, for some DUMB reason, the switch for bzip2 changes from version to version with tar and the only CERTAIN way of making it work is to use:

tar --bzip -xvf filename.tar.bz2