On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, [iso-8859-1] Jos� Albores wrote:
> 1. How can I read contents of files with extension .tgz and tgz.1 (or
> must I rename the latter .tgz.1 to .tgz) , suppossing they're text
> files?
AFAIK, you can't read them except by decompressing them and then reading
the decompressed files. mc will do this for you and clean up nicely
afterwards.
> 2. How can I de-compress these files (both .gz and .tar) to a /temp
> directory without deleting the original ?
cd /tmp
tar -zxvvf file.tgz
(z = gzip, x = extract, vv = very verbose, f = read from file (instead of
stdin)).
Old versions of tar do not support the -z option, so you had to use:
gzip -cd file.tgz | tar -xvv
HTH
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