Re: bunzip2 -c linux-2.2.10.tar.bz2 | untar -xvp

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 07:39:23 +0100 (BST)

No, it does not. If yours does you must have applied some "3rd party"
patch to enhance it over and above the standard (GNU) tar(1):

$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12

Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
$ tar tIvf /home/ftp/pub/kernel/linux-2.3.6.tar.bz2
tar: invalid option -- I
Try `tar --help' for more information.

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Myles Uyema wrote:
> GNU tar 1.12 already uses the -I switch (capital i) for using bzip2
> compression. Long options are --bzip2 or --bunzip2.

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