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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:16:27
Message-Id: 200811061318.59527.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives by Florian Philipp
1 On Thursday 6 November 2008, 11:39, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb:
3 > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya
4 <nickolayh@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >> How to extract lzma archives?
6 > >
7 > > by lzma archive, you probably mean a lzma-compressed tar archive.
8 > > You can extract them with
9 > > lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f -
10 >
11 > This command line can be simplified:
12 > unlzma -c compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar xv
13
14 why not directly
15
16 tar --lzma -xvf compressedarchive.tar.lzma
17
18 then? (I hope I got the syntax right)