TGZ Files

TGZ Files

[Rejean Proulx]

How do I unzip a tgz file?  I found a potential raid reconfig tool and I
want to play with it under my user id very carefully before I go at my
system in root.

 Rejean Proulx
Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
MSN is: rejp@rogers.com
Ham License VA3REJ

Re: TGZ Files

[Gregory Nowak]

Try:

tar zxpf filename.tgz

Hth.

Greg


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:13:01PM -0400, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> How do I unzip a tgz file?  I found a potential raid reconfig tool and I
> want to play with it under my user id very carefully before I go at my
> system in root.
> 
>  Rejean Proulx
> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> MSN is: rejp@rogers.com
> Ham License VA3REJ
> 
> 
> 
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Re: TGZ Files

[Adam Myrow]

Either the easy way or the hard way.

The easy way is "tar xzvf file.tgz."  The "x" means extract, the "v" means
to list the files as they are extracted, and can be left off if desired,
the "z" means run gunzip on the file as well, and the "f" tells the
filename.  The hard way which would work on a system which has a very old
version of tar that doesn't understand the z option would be
gunzip -c file.tgz | tar xvf -
This does the exact same thing.

Re: TGZ Files

[Luke Davis]

The -z switch to tar will do it, or the gunzip command.  Say you start
with "test.tar.gz", you could do:

gunzip test.tar.gz

In which case you will get "test.tar".  You could drop this step, however,
by doing:

tar -xzf test.tar.gz

Or:

tar -xzvf test.tar.gz

You will then get the expanded contents of the tar.

A ".tgz" file, is just a ".tar.gz" file, with a shorter name.


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> How do I unzip a tgz file?  I found a potential raid reconfig tool and I
> want to play with it under my user id very carefully before I go at my
> system in root.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> MSN is: rejp@rogers.com
> Ham License VA3REJ
>
>
>
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Re: TGZ Files

[Gregory Nowak]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:33:57PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> A ".tgz" file, is just a ".tar.gz" file, with a shorter name.

A tgz file is also a slackware package.

Greg


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Re: TGZ Files

[Luke Davis]

Eh?  A joke?

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:33:57PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> > A ".tgz" file, is just a ".tar.gz" file, with a shorter name.
>
> A tgz file is also a slackware package.
>
> Greg
>
>
>

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Re: TGZ Files

[Alex Snow]

Hi. You do something like
tar xvzf file.tgz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean@interfree.ca>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: TGZ Files


> How do I unzip a tgz file?  I found a potential raid reconfig tool and I
> want to play with it under my user id very carefully before I go at my
> system in root.
> 
>  Rejean Proulx
> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> MSN is: rejp@rogers.com
> Ham License VA3REJ
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>