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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers .bz2 compression Post 60553 by cbkihong on Tuesday 18th of January 2005 07:26:13 PM
Old 01-18-2005
As you may have guessed, bzip2/bunzip2 can be used for compressing/decompressing bzipped archives. Of course there is bzcat as well.

I usually use one of the two commands to decompress a bzipped archive:

tar xjf something.tar.bz2
bunzip2 something.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

(2nd for non GNU-tar)

Usage is similar to that of gzip. You can search for more examples or read the manpage.

Modern Unix distributions usually have them. If not you may consider to get one from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/.
 

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lrztar

LRZTAR.1(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       LRZTAR.1(1)

NAME

       lrztar - Directory wrapper for lrzip

SYNOPSIS

	 lrztar [options] DIRECTORY
	 lrztar -d [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz
	 lrzuntar [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz

DESCRIPTION

       lrztar is a wrapper for compressing and decompressing whole directories with lrzip(1) to corresponding file "DIRECTORY.tar.lrz". lrzuntar
       is identical to "lrztar -d".  lrztar takes the same options as lrzip.

OPTIONS

       See lrzip(1).

ENVIRONMENT

       None.

FILES

       None.

SEE ALSO

       lrzip.conf(5), lrzuntar(1), lrzip(1), lrunzip(1), lrzcat(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), lzop(1), rzip(1), zip(1)

AUTHORS

       Program was written by Con Kolivas.

       This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or
       (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-02-08							       LRZTAR.1(1)
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