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Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

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On Friday 26 January 2018 00:43:24 Charlie S wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:51:47 +0000 Brian sent:
> > On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 15:42:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 January 2018 15:14:24 Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > > Dear folks,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to extract files from a tar xz file.
> > > >
> > > > The file is a kernel file.
> > > >
> > > > I ran the tar -xf command:
> >
> > [Snipped]
> >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > > The above content, added by Maurice E. Heskett, is Copyright 2018
> > > by Maurice E. Heskett.
> >
> > I've deleted just about everything in your post because I do not
> > know whether it is redistributable. Would you please clarify?
> >
> > --
> > Brian.
>
> 	After contemplation, my reply is:
>
> [quote] man xz can be quite educational ;-) [end quote]
>
> Is there something wrong with that?
>
> Charlie

Nope. The wheezy version of tar has apparently not been taught about xz 
files yet. Or has it?, -J is an alias for --xz acc my man page.  Note 
uppercase J. A lowercase j=bzip2. So we both learned something. But what 
I've been upacking recently have all been images to dd to an sd card for 
booting these pi sized computer cards.


-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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extracting file with xz file tar..... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 21:40 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-01-25 21:50 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-25 21:50 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
      Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 02:00 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-26 03:50 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 08:50 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 12:00 +0100
            Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-01-26 17:30 +0100
              Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 17:40 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 11:00 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 11:40 +0100
      Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Charlie S <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 07:10 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 09:00 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-25 22:10 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-25 22:20 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 11:10 +0100

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