I want to thank everyone that adds more information.
It helps us who are clueless when we see more to the
picture than we expected. For people who didn't ask
the question, it helps even more. We didn't know
enough to ask.
Scott Hamma
--- Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:02:13PM -0400, David Z
> Maze wrote:
> > shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
> > shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for
> tar it i tar xvf
> >
> > Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for
> foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip
> > foo.tgz; tar xf foo.tar' should work. As a
> shorthand using GNU tar
> > (the tar included with Debian, for example), you
> can just do 'tar xzf
> > foo.tgz'.
>
> I always learned that .tgz meant the file was
> created via "tar czf
> ..." while tar.gz meant the file was a tarball that
> was compressed
> ("tar cf - | gzip -9"; "tar cf file.tar ... && gzip
> -9 file.tar",
> etc.)
>
> Note that it's not quite the same:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ tar czf test.tgz drm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ tar cf - drm | gzip -9 >
> test.tar.gz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ll test.*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nnorman nnorman 153609 Sep 13
> 14:54 test.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nnorman nnorman 155636 Sep 13
> 14:54 test.tgz
>
> Of course both files can be read via "tar zxf" or
> "zcat file | tar x",
> so my point (if there is one :) is that tarring then
> compressing is
> more efficient.
>
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