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[Scott]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:43 -0700, Scott wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>Kaushik Chauhan wrote:
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>>>>Anyone know how to open following file ?
>>>>( I am new to linux )
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>>>>rhel-rg-en-4.tbz
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>>>This is like a zip file in Windows, in that it contains a bunch of 
>>>files collected together and then compressed.
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>>>You can extract the files like this:
>>>$ tar xvfj rhel-rg-en-4.tbz
>>>You'll see the names of the files as they are extracted.
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>>>(the "$" above represents the shell prompt - the command you type 
>>>starts with "tar")
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>>>Paul.
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>>the "f" argument must be last  before filename (which is what the f 
>>stands for) with tar, so use instead
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>>tar  xjvf rhel-rg-en-4.tbz
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>You haven't tried it the other way, have you Scott ;-)
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>Paul.
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    Paul:

Not in ages!  In fact it was probably about when I first started in 
Linux, around RH 7.2 or so (ah the good ol' days!) Even then, I probably 
just read that in a book. Come to think of it, I don't think I've 
touched more than 1 .bz file in the last year.  Thanks Paul