On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:37:51PM -0700, Arturo Ovalle wrote:
> Thanks Paul for your help. I'll have a look to those programs, and see if they are suitable for this task.
>
> In advance; "tar" is the hardest and confusing term I've ever (try not to) use. I've never been able to untar my own files, specially if it is mixed with .bz .zip .gz... etc.
>
Tar is actually not that confusing. The man page has improved, putting
in examples. I have a very old page at
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/tarball.html, that deals
with various formats, including tar.
Like anything else, once you know it, it's pretty easy.
Also, tar has gotten better at figuring out the file type and whether
it's bz2 or gz can often open it without you having to specify. That
is, the command for a tar.bz2 file is usually tar xvfj <filename> and
xvfz for a tar.gz file. However, usually (though not 100 percent of the
time), you can just type tar xvf and tar will figure out if it's bzipped
or gzipped.
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