On Monday 17 June 2013 03:15:53 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/06/2013 06:55, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > tar -xJf "./$i" > > > > why doesn't the bzip2 detect as bzip2 ? > > Capital J is XZ not bzip2.. still, it makes me think it needs a newer > version of file to recognize it. the stupid default font doesn't clearly render that. guess that's the older LZMA format rather than the newer XZ as the latter can be detected by file. -mike