*.tar.gz file

[Dlomo]

Hi , I have a file.tar.gz file
I want to unpack it on linux
How do I do it

Please help

[Kodjo Agbenu]

Either :

gunzip file.tar.gz
tar xvf file.tar

or :

tar xzvf file.tar.gz

or :

zcat file.tar.gz | tar xvf -


Good luck.

Kodjo

[Vincent Stedema]

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

[John Meissner]

I prefer Kodjo's first method

gunzip file.tar.gz
tar -xvf file.tar

just some quick notes on gunzip and tar:

to zip a file type gzip file
to unzip a file type gunzup file.gz

to create a tar file type:
tar -cvf tarfilename file1 file2 file3 and so on

to look at the contents of a tar file type:
tar -tvf tarfilename

to extract a tarfile type:
tar -xvf tarfilename

hope this helps

[Stuart Browne]

Just thought I'd toss my $0.02 in here too.

Given that we're using Linux (in this group at least), this means that for the most of us, we'd be using GNU 'tar'.

GNU tar has some lovely little compression plugins already, so you can do fun things like:

tar ztvf file.tar.gz

to list back files in a G-Zipped Tar file. You can also create directly into such a tarball by using:

tar zcf file.tar.gz

Now, if you didn't want to use GZip compression, but something like 'bzip', you could use the 'j' flag (unless it was older than tar 1.20 or some such, where it was 'I'. This was changed for compatability reasons).

Not only that, if you wanted to use your own compression routine, you could just tell it to use your own:

tar cvf --use-compress-program /my/comperss/program file.tar.mycompress

All is neatly laid out in the manual page of course.

NOTE: All the previous examples in the other threads are also quite valid, and will work. Just not as efficient as it could be.

[Chakravarthi]

use tar xvfz file.tar.gz