You need the -f flag to tell it to read from a file.

Try:
tar -vjxf binutils-2.25.1.tar.bz2

Brian Cluff

On 10/24/2015 09:24 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> tar -vjx binutils-2.25.1.tar.bz2
> doesn't do anything. I tried changing the order of the options but it
> didn't help any.
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