tar.bz2

**big_k105** · 08-07-2003

i have a 2Mg tarball file and i was wondering how long do you think this should take to unzip. i ran it and it was running for every and i closed the term window but i was curious how long this should take

**Giro** · 08-07-2003

Not long depends on hardware. What command did you use?

**QuickDraw** · 08-07-2003

i usally just use

bunzip2 <filename.tar.bz2>

and then

tar -xvf <filename.tar>

i know there is some way to do it in one step using tar .. but i just have always done it this way cause sometimes i need to gzip it ... ie for installing new icons that come in .tar.bz2 format.

**Giro** · 08-07-2003

I think you mean this

.tar.bz2 files ->

Code:

tar jxvf filename.tar.bz2

.tar.gz files ->

Code:

tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

The j means uncompress with bzip2 before untarring. Same thing for gzip. Just do a tar --help for more info.

**big_k105** · 08-09-2003

well i got it to work thanks for the help i wasnt doing it right i wont even mention what i was doing as i dont want to embarris my self

but thanks again

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