[X-Unix] How to *quietly* unarchive a .bz2 file?

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2010 Oct 03, at 07:29, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:

> bzcat file.log.bz2 > file.log

Great.  Thank you.

> But if you're just grepping them, you can pipe them directly:
> bzcat file.log.bz2 | grep something

Yes, I grep it to a Perl one-liner.

> At least on 10.6.

It works in 10.5 too.


On 2010 Oct 03, at 09:56, Chris Jones wrote:

> The fact it is is /sw leads me to believe you installed it from Fink.

Yes, I wish that more installers would put their stuff in my Home folder, so I knew it was mine and could back it up easily.  Same problem with CPAN Perl module installer.