Re: Specifying tmp for tar

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On 01/09/2007, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you were doing
>
>         bunzip2 name-of-tar.bz2
>         tar xf name-of-tar
>
> or even
>
>         bzcat name-of-tar.bz2 | tar xf -
>
> then you're going to use /tmp.  Do it all in one command:
>
>         tar xJf name-of-tar.bz2
>

I was using a graphical KDE tool for the job. It may have been doing
the work in different steps. I think that I tried tar from the command
line as well, but that was at one in the morning and now I'm not sure.
I'll play around with some other suggestion from this thread and
report back. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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