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Subject: Re: How to untar a .tgz file
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> Hello all,
> I am trying to untar/unzip? a .tgz file.
> What would the command be. I've tried looking..... 
> help.
> 
> thanks,
> Radhika

It should be:

tar -xzvf /file/to/untar.tgz /path/to/extract/to

Hope that helps 

marc

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