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How to unzip a tar.gz

 
marco_186
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тАО08-06-2005 04:42 AM

тАО08-06-2005 04:42 AM

How to unzip a tar.gz

Dear all,
anybody help about unzip file.tar.gz
thanks alot
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Venkatesh BL
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тАО08-06-2005 04:47 AM

тАО08-06-2005 04:47 AM

Re: How to unzip a tar.gz

# gunzip file.tar.gz ; will give you file.tar
# tar xvf file.tar ;will give you the contents of the archive
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V. Nyga
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тАО08-08-2005 05:10 AM

тАО08-08-2005 05:10 AM

Re: How to unzip a tar.gz

Hi,

a 'tar tvf file.tar' before a 'tar xvf ...' can prevent, that you overwrite own datas.

Volkmar
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Kasper Hedensted
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тАО08-09-2005 02:13 AM

тАО08-09-2005 02:13 AM

Re: How to unzip a tar.gz

You can also gunzip directly to tar:

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

Cheers,
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