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Subject: Re: un-tarring a file?
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In the future you dont have to gunzip it first. One of the features of
the GNU based tar is builtin gzip support. This would have worked from
the start:

    "tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz" or "tar -zxvf filename.tgz"

It will work on either extension. The "v" is for verbose and shows you
the file names as they come out of the tarball.

Another handy command is:

    "tar -tf filename.tar" or "tar -ztf filename.tar.gz"

The "t" makes tar list all the files but not actually untar them ;)

Happy tarring.

-Bill


On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, ira miller wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 	Sorry to bother everyone again, but I have followed the instructions
> > in the man pages and can't get this to work.  I downloaded netscape
> > navigator standalone, the file name is:
> > 
> > 	
> > navigator-v408-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
> > 
> > It was also with a .gz, but I was able to unzip that with the gunzip
> > utility, following the instructions.  Now I have the tar file, and I've been
> > trying the following:
> > 
> > Eco1#	tar -x navigator-v408-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
> > 
> 
> You need 
> 
> tar xf filename.tar
> 
> Andrzej
> 
> 
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