[LBo] Displaying Directories

Billy Pollifrone billy at silverbaseball.com
Tue Jul 17 20:55:07 CEST 2007


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> David Roseman wrote:
>> sorry for being picky, but in this line
>>
>> If you see this .tar.bz2 file, you need to extract it using "tar xvfj
>> whatever-filename.tar.bz2"
>>
>> the command should be tar -xvfj <filename>
>>

But I could also use Gnu-Style arguments and be 100% correct:

tar --extract --bzip2 --verbose --file my_archive.tar.bz2

which is useful when someone may not be familiar with the switches.

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Billy Pollifrone
billy @ silverbaseball . com
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