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[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:43 -0700, Scott wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > Kaushik Chauhan wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone know how to open following file ?
> >> ( I am new to linux )
> >>
> >> rhel-rg-en-4.tbz
> >
> >
> > This is like a zip file in Windows, in that it contains a bunch of 
> > files collected together and then compressed.
> >
> > You can extract the files like this:
> > $ tar xvfj rhel-rg-en-4.tbz
> > You'll see the names of the files as they are extracted.
> >
> > (the "$" above represents the shell prompt - the command you type 
> > starts with "tar")
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> the "f" argument must be last  before filename (which is what the f 
> stands for) with tar, so use instead
> 
> tar  xjvf rhel-rg-en-4.tbz

You haven't tried it the other way, have you Scott ;-)

Paul.
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