tbz file from pkg

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hi All,

I find that I do not need a fully blown shell script, so I cobbled together
a single set of shell commands that will convert "*.txz" file to "*.tbz"
files and it seems to work.

# find *txz -iname '*txz' | while read txz; do echo "Found: $txz";
name=$(echo "$txz" | sed -e 's/\.[^.]*$//'); mkdir -p tmp/$name; tar -xjf
$txz -C tmp/$name; cd tmp/$name; tar cvfj ../../$name.tbz .; cd ../..; rm
-Rf tmp/$name; rm -Rf tmp; done

maybe it will be of help to others as well.

Cheers and have a great weekend,
Lonnie




On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 4:23 PM Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>
wrote:

> Thanks All,
>
> Since  the pkg command returns txz (tar+xz) compressed files during a
> fetch, I am going to try to come up with a shell script that will loop
> through all of the txz files in a folder and convert each one to a tbz
> (tar+bzip2) compressed file.
>
> I think that might be helpful to others as well.
> Cheers
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 2:38 PM Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:25:19 -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>> > In working with the "pkg fetch .." command, I notice that the coles come
>> > back with the ".txz" extension.
>> >
>> > In my reading on FreeBSD, it seems that the common extension is a ".tbz"
>>
>> Those extensions mean different things.
>>
>>
>>
>> > So then, I am wondering how to either have "pkg fetch" return ".tbz"
>> files
>> > or perhaps there is a way to convert the ".txz" files.
>> >
>> > Any insight on this?
>>
>> The extensions usually identify what 't' that is is a tar
>> archive, and "xz" indicates the kind of compression. There
>> are many:
>>
>> ----- filename extensions ----- ------- compression --------
>> short   long       alternate    meaning           tar option
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> .tar                            tar
>> .tgz    .tar.gz                 tar + GNU zip    -z
>> .tbz    .tar.bz    .tar.bz2     tar + bzip       -j
>> .txz    .tar.xz                 tar + xz         -J
>>
>> BSD tar supports them all, it can conveniently combine the
>> uncompression and extraction operations.
>>
>> Also see "man 1 xz" and "man 1 bzip2" for details, as well
>> as "man 1 tar", of course. :-)
>>
>> In order to convert a .txz to a .tbz archive, you can use
>> the tools mentioned above to uncompress and recompress the
>> content. Note that there are various options that can affect
>> the compression level.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Polytropon
>> Magdeburg, Germany
>> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
>> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>>
>