Newbie Experience

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote:

> On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
>> As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them  
>> (although not
>> always).  I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( - 
>> z and -j
>> respectively).  So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that  
>> feature.
>
> In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does  
> one read
> tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when creating a tar
> archive. bsdtar(1) recognises bzip2 and gzip compression on reading an
> archive and handles them automatically.

old habits die hard
:-0

Chad

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