Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:48:21 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, "Fred J. Lomas" <aj@8hill.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how ?/ Message-ID: <00030108510506.00318@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <38BABDF8.C3242EB6@3-cities.com>
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Why would you want to do it that way. Specially when the file is very huge. I recommend people use the zcat command. eg: - Assuming you want to extract phpMyAdmin to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ The phpMyAdmin.tar.gz file is locate in /home/billgates/ Type in:- cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ zcat /home/billgates/phpMyAdmin.tar.gz | tar xvf - On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > Ronald Klop wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:11:59AM -0800, Fred J. Lomas wrote: > > > > I just dl netscape 4.72 and it has a .tar.gz at the end , not sure what > > > > I need to do to extract it ,,, anyone help > > > > > > tar xzvf filename > > > > Or to be a bit more educative (is this good english? :-) > > > > first: > > gunzip blabla.tar.gz > > and then: > > tar xvf blabla.tar > > > > gunzip uncompresses a file and tar can (un)archive a lot of files > > together in one file. > > The "tar z" option does it in one pass. > > Kent > > > > > Greetings, > > > > Ronald. > > -- > > Ronald Klop > > http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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