From: Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4821D252.1020902@wrkhors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fvpjj8$7ho$1@ger.gmane.org>
>>>> tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
>>> To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.
>> That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and
>> gzip compression and handle it automatically.
>
> That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing with other
> systems where you might not have GNU tar, you might be "surprised"
> to find that "tar xvf file.tgz" doesn't work.
>
> Hence I think, that it is a good idea to keep on using z or j.
Not all of them speak any squish factor, leaving:
gzip -dc blah.tar.gz | tar xvf -;
(or bzip/bzip2) as the most portable route.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 1:06 [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping? Mark Knecht
2008-05-04 10:21 ` Jil Larner
2008-05-04 12:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-04 15:25 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-04 23:12 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 0:41 ` Mark Shields
2008-05-05 1:20 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 2:54 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 4:04 ` Ian Graeme Hilt
2008-05-05 8:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-05 12:17 ` Ian Graeme Hilt
2008-05-05 12:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-06 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-06 21:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-08 8:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 16:01 ` Steven Lembark [this message]
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