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how to decompress a .tar.bz2 file

March 18th, 2006 by Lawrence David

to decompress a .tar.bz2 file, go with:

> tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2

Posted in Mac OS X, Unix | 3 Comments »

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3 Responses to “how to decompress a .tar.bz2 file”

1. on 19 Jul 2007 at 5:19 pm   Christopher Green

   ya forgot th’ dash, d00d.

   tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2

   :-0 Oops.

2. on 11 May 2008 at 5:56 pm   4ccdb5420ccd

   4ccdb5420ccd…

   4ccdb5420ccd4bcc3eae…

3. on 04 Oct 2008 at 3:16 pm   Nodashesneeded

   Actually, Christopher, tar is smart enough that it doesn’t need the dashes – with or without them, the order of arguments lets it guess what you mean.