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Re: OT: A version of tar using bzip2



Guy Baruch <guybar@pob.huji.ac.il> writes:

> Is there one including bzip2 ?
> (Yes I know I can use tar and then bzip2, Its just that gtar cfz is
> shorter and nicer)

As usual, the right answer is RTFM. From man tar (for GNU tar):

       --use-compress-program PROG
              filter  the archive through PROG (which must accept
              -d)

bzip2 does accept -d (for decompress), so this should work. I have not
tried this, though.

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