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Need help with compressed files please.

Jeff Thomas_1 — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:00:20 GMT

Hi,

I have some files which I believe are compressed. I only have command line console access to the HP-UX 11 system.

The files have a .tar.gz extension on them. Anyone know how I can uncompress them? Thanks!

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Rita C Workman — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:02:24 GMT

Have you tried gunzip ??

Regards,
Rita

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Rob Smith — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:03:25 GMT

Hi, try gzip -d on those files. Hope this helps.

Rob

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:03:55 GMT

Those files have been compressed with gzip. To unzip them use:

/usr/contrib/bin/gunzip filename.tar.gz

gunzip should be in /usr/contrib/bin, if not, try /opt/gzip/bin/gunzip

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Satish Y — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:05:08 GMT

gzip -d file.tar.gz
or
gunzip file.tar.gz

Cheers...
Satish.

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Alan Riggs — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:36:14 GMT

Or, if you are certain you want to untar the archive, combine the steps:

gunzip -c archive.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Peter Maitland — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:50:12 GMT

Just as a matter of interest; why would you give points to one person and not to the other 4 that gave you the same answer? Just curious as I am new here.

Peter

Re: Need help with compressed files please.

Jaimin Parikh — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:00:48 GMT

Hi,

I think this is not a good practice.We gather here to share our problems and we should appreciate all the responses to our problems.

Jeff,you should give some points to other guys also,since they have spent some time answering your query.

Good luck to all of you.

Regards,
Jaimin.