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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 01:11:35 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2
Message-ID:  <19990525011135.B9588@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000001bea663$b8ea79a0$c802040a@latitude.cyber1.net>; from "Peter Brezny" on Tue May 25 00:04:43 GMT 1999
References:  <000001bea663$b8ea79a0$c802040a@latitude.cyber1.net>

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In the last episode (May 25), Peter Brezny said:
> i'm working on restoring just two files out of a bzip-ed file that
> contains multiple directories and multiple files.
> 
> could someone please send an example of how to do this.
> 
> i looked through the man page for bzip but was unable to get things
> working.

bzip can only compress one file per .bz2 file (just like gzip). 
Perhaps you are thinking of a .tar.bz2 file?

bunzip2 < file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - file1 file2

Or, if you're running a new enough system,

tar yxvf file.tar.bz2 file1 file2

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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