Re: I need tar xz help

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On 8/23/25 9:08 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
On 23.08.2025 20:55 ToddAndMargo via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

$ tar xjvf
/home/CDs/Linux/Thunderbird/betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


$ tar xzvf
/home/CDs/Linux/Thunderbird/betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

-j is for bzip2. Your file isn't bzip2 compressed. The file name
indicates that, but is irrelevant for the system. Use

file betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
to identify the real type.

For xz (as the file name indicates), use -J (uppercase).

You can also leave out the option at all and tar will check which
compression is being used.

That did the trick.  Thank you!

On the Search I made, the J was capitalized, but I read it
as a small j

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