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2008-02-27 , 11:59
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Originally Posted by speedmartini View Post
Busybox will not accept "j". I am trying to unpack a bzip2 file using the command xvjf or xjf, and I also tried the above method "tvjf" to view the .tar.bz2 file. In every case Busybox is telling me that "j" is an invalid option. What am I doing wrong? Also, if I try bunzip2 from root -though the file extension is .tar.bz2 - busybox tells me it is not a bzip2 file! This is an attempt to utilize the dictionary files available for mDictionary. FYI this is on an N800 - I started off in Troubleshooting and ended up over here by searching for a relevant thread.
Most, if not all, non-GNU tar programs won't understand 'j', and some (not including busybox) won't understand 'z' either. The fix is to do as follows instead:

bunzip2 -c file.tar.bz2 | tar tvf -
(to view)
or
bunzip2 -c file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
(to unpack)

Ditto for 'z':
gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar tvf -

(I'm so used to working on non-GNU systems that I usually do the above out of habit even when on a GNU system)
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