From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 14:44:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D3037BF53 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-247.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.247] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA01397; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:45:00 +1100 From: Danny To: Kent Stewart , Ronald Klop Subject: Re: how ?/ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:48:21 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Gunnar Flygt , "Fred J. Lomas" , FreeBSD Questions References: <38BABDF8.C3242EB6@3-cities.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030108510506.00318@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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