UNCOMPRESS Command

[DK Raviraja]

Hi Friends

This is similar to my earlier Question which is wrngly posted in Database Category.

Problem

I got a file abc.tar.Z file in mount point. I don;t have sufficient space to compress the same in that mount point.

I would like to uncompress this file, so that uncompressed file will be in some other mount point.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

Simply use the -c flag which forces writing
to standard output. Ni files are changed.

Example:
uncompress -c abc.tar.Z > /home/new.tar

Dan

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could also do:
zcat abc.tar >/newdir/abc.tar
(Note you can leave the .Z extension because zcat recognizes this automatically)

Regards

[Madanagopalan S]

you can use the -c option; this will write the output to stdout;
this will not change the source file name (file.tar.Z).
you can just output the stdout to file.

test1> uncompress -c test.tar.Z > ../test.tar
/> ll test.tar

the source file still in compressed format and you
will get the uncompressed format file in different dir.

Hope this helps.

[Lawrence Mahan]

Here is what I do.

zcat abc.tar.Z | tar xvf -

The zcat will uncompress the tar file to standard out, Pipe this to tar. The -f - will take the tar image from standard in.

Good luck.