That's why the advice "man tar" was appropriate. I'm tar 1.13.17 and
it's still -I.
Thanks everyone.
- Dave
> > Hmm.. Now that makes three things I've seen for bz2 files: `tar
> yxvf'
> > `tar Ixvf' `tar jxvf'
>
> Yeah, that was my reaction, too - I expected to find -I, but I guess
> Debian's
> tar has changed it (relatively) recently. According to tar --help:
>
> -T, -I, --files-from=NAME get names to extract or create from
> file NAME
>
> (tar --version identifies itself as "tar (GNU tar) 1.13.18".)
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