Mike Hicks wrote: > > Munir Nassar <m_nassar at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > i got a bad .tar.bz file, is there a way to extract > > the data it contains the only copy of my C++ homework > > of the past month or so > > > > what i did was i did a "#tar -cIf foo.tar.bz <my home > > dir>" > [...] > > here are the errors i get when extracting: > > "$tar xzvf foo.tar.bz > > > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar Error exit delayed from previous errors" > > The problem here would be that you're trying to un-gzip a bzip'ed file. > Have you tried `tar Ixvf foo.tar.bz'? > > Also note that the GNU tar folks keep changing the (un)bzip2 parameter. > The safest command line for it is probably `tar --bzip2 -xvf foo.tar.bz2' Actually the safest thing would be to bunzip2 it first, then untar it. bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2 tar xvf foo.tar