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Posted: Oct. 29 2003,13:48 QUOTE
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: Oct. 29 2003,14:51 QUOTE
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz ? :O

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Posted: Oct. 29 2003,18:30 QUOTE
Actually,

I think its:

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz


but I could be wrong.
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Posted: Oct. 29 2003,20:16 QUOTE
either way
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Posted: Oct. 29 2003,20:33 QUOTE
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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