tar?

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: tar?
started by: r0bin

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Posted by r0bin on Oct. 29 2003,13:48

i want to untar a compressed file, i have some experience in using the tar command when i used shells, about 2 years ago, ive forgotten the usage of this command x.x

how do i uncompress a tar.gz file using the tar command?
thanks

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Posted by wiak on Oct. 29 2003,14:51

tar zxvf filename.tar.gz ?

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Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 29 2003,18:30

Actually,

I think its:

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz


but I could be wrong.

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Posted by yipper on Oct. 29 2003,20:16

either way

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Posted by capslock on Oct. 29 2003,20:33

Quote (r0bin @ Oct. 29 2003,08:48)

i want to untar a compressed file, i have some experience in using the tar command when i used shells, about 2 years ago, ive forgotten the usage of this command x.x how do i uncompress a tar.gz file using the tar command? thanks

actuall you would  gzip -d file.tar.gz
then  tar -xvf file.tar

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Posted by yipper on Oct. 29 2003,22:17

Or you can:
gzip -d -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -

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