2008/7/7 Giuseppe Zompatori <siliconjoe(a)gmail.com>om>:
You can use those compressed files directly/in-line by using the z/bz
prefixed version of cat, i.e.:
bzcat ../patch-2.6.25.8-rt7.bz2 | patch -p1
ah.. there's also bzcat
thanks for the hint :)