From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ohsmtp01.ogw.rr.com ([65.24.7.36]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A749t-0005aH-00 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:34:37 -0400 Received: from cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com (cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com [24.33.3.115]) by ohsmtp01.ogw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h982YXId029143 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 22:34:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:34:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: TGZ Files In-Reply-To: <005301c38d41$b382cbb0$6501a8c0@ism.can.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <005301c38d41$b382cbb0$6501a8c0@ism.can.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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.