Dexter Graphic wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:30, Mike O wrote: > > gunzip filename.gz > > tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz > > > > couldn't resist. > > The gunzip worked but it deleted the original file.Is there some way to > stop it from doing this?
gunzip -c < filename.tar.gz > filename.tar bzip2 has a nifty '-k'/'--keep' flag which means "keep the original after (de)compressing", but gzip is deficient there. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
