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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:12:11 +0100
From:      Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
To:        Dave Kaufman <daverk@epix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tarballs, etc.
Message-ID:  <20011224001211.A637@tisys.org>
In-Reply-To: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>; from daverk@epix.net on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:54:44PM -0500
References:  <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>

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On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:54:44PM -0500, Dave Kaufman stood up and spoke:
> ok, how do i uncompress a tarball? when i use tar -x.... i get a message 
> about not being able to initialize the device sa0. i presume it's looking for 
> a tape drive. per the help, if i try to filter through bzip2 or unbzip2 or 
> ungzip i get the same thing. i'm sure this is very simple but i'm not finding 
> it.

The following should work

for .tar.gz: tar xzvfp file.tar.gz
for tar.bz2: tar xjvfp file.tar.bz2

Greetings
Nils

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Nils Holland
Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
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