Want to download a .tar.bz2 and extract, then run the file into the database.
Eventually I will be setting up some sort of a crontab job thingmebob, but for the moment, I want to be able to extract the files successfully. I have not touched on streams or system before, and would like to dabble a bit, but am unsure how to do so.

Any help would be appreciated

so the files in this tar files are sql or what??
could you explain the problem in alittle more detail

the files within the tar/gz are .csv files, with /t seperators.

I already have the script to read the files, and add them to the database, I want to know how to extract the .csv's from the archives first.

dude i checked the php manual and there is a plenty of functions
like

bzopen(),bzread(),bzdecompress()

what these do is open the file and read from and outputs a string of the file contents
since the files are separated by \t it looks an easy job u just need to now where the file names are (maybe the first line)
but i never tried this out
i think the manual could help more

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