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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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