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>untar and unzip a .tgz .tar.gz or something similar:
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>tar xfz <file.tar.gz>
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>x means xtract, f means file, z means pass through gzip to decompress
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>to create a .tar.gz file:
>tar cfz <file.tgz> <files to compress and tar>
Note: on some versions of tar the order of the parameters is important.
I.e. the 'f' parameter (for file) needs to be followed by the actual file
name (example tar xzf <file.tar.gz> and tar czf <file.tgz>).
Also the file extensions .tar.gz and .tgz are used interchangably.
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