Re: [newbie] Un-tar?

[Dan Brown]

Arcana wrote:

>         I have an archive that is tar-ed.  I have no idea how to open the
> archive.


        Just tarred, or also gzipped?  If only tarred, do:

        % tar xf <filename.tar>

        x tells it to extract
        f tells it to read from a file

        If it's also gzipped, add 'z' to tell it to uncompress as well.

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