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==tar/bzip2/bunzip2==
==tar/bzip2/bunzip2==
For extracting archives, this command is useful for extracting to directories other than the home directory, where root privileges are required
For extracting archives, this command is useful for extracting to directories other than the home directory, where root privileges are required
* XO files downloaded via [[browse]] go into the journal, not the filesystem. As such, they're not named with normal extensions. How does tar/bzip/gzip work here?
* XO files downloaded via [[browse]] go into the [[journal]], not the filesystem. As such, they're not named with normal extensions. How does tar/bzip/gzip work here?


Usage:
Usage:

Revision as of 06:28, 15 January 2008

An overview of how to use bunzip2, shamelessly cut and reformatted from Sathya Says -- if you find this useful, thank the original author.

tar/bzip2/bunzip2

For extracting archives, this command is useful for extracting to directories other than the home directory, where root privileges are required

  • XO files downloaded via browse go into the journal, not the filesystem. As such, they're not named with normal extensions. How does tar/bzip/gzip work here?

Usage:

For GZipped files(.tar.gz extension)

tar xvfz <archive-name>

Eg: If the archive name is some-file.tar.gz, then the command will be

tar xvfz some-file.tar.gz

For Bzipped files (.tar.bz2 extension)

First, unzip the archive using

bunzip2 <archive-name>

Then untar using the command

tar xvf <archive-name> 

Eg: If the archive is some-file.tar.bz2 then first unzip it using

bunzip some-file.tar.bz2

You’ll get the file some-file.tar. Next untar it using

tar xvf some-file.tar