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Re: Unpack/Extract a file



On Sun, Dec 09, 2001, Avi Boots wrote about "Unpack/Extract a  file":
> Hi,
> 
> How can i Unpack/Extract a file/s that have the extension above: (tar.bz2)
> 
> ---      cygwin-1.3.6-5-src.tar.bz2     ---

On Linux, just do
	tar -Ixvf file.tar.bz2    [1]
or
	bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

On Windows (seeing that you're trying to compile cygwin), if Winzip doesn't
recognize this format, try to download a .tar.gz file instead - Winzip
will surely recognize it.

[1] If I remember correctly, newer GNU tar switched to -j instead of -I

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