This will be just a quick note, so no synopsis is really needed. After all that going on I did about tar and bunzip2 in the previous entry, what do I find out in reading about tar in my Linux Pocket Guide?
It seems there is a -j switch for tar (alternatively expressed as --bzip2) such that one may extract a .bz2 zipped tar archive by, for example:
tar -xjvf some-file-or-other-1.2.3.tar.bz2
which results in a single-pass extraction to a folder named
some-file-or-other-1.2.3
beneath the present one.
Dash it all! I could have been saving steps all over the place! It'll pay me to read more carefully. (At least I figured it out for myself before the Doctor looked over my shoulder.)
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