Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:29:35 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org> References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org>
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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. Jonathan
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