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Date:      Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:24:38 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What pgm create files ending in .tgz
Message-ID:  <20011215202438.GA5405@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEJKCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEJKCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:19:56PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> This got to be very basic, just don't know. I thought tar would handle this?

A file with a name ending in .tgz is usually the same as a file ending
in .tar.gz  ,namely a .tar file that has been compressed with gzip.

Tar can handle such fiels directly, just specify the 'z' flag and tar
will automatically invoke gzip for (de)compression of the .tar archive.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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