On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 at 08:30, carlos gevido wrote:
> I have a tar file on a cd, a very big one. I wanted to decompress it
> without copying the file into my HD. How can I do this?
You may be interested in learning piping. Basically it's redirecting the
output of one program to another program. While a straightforward "tar
zxvf /blah/blah/blah" will work just fine, you may enjoy:
cat /cdrom/some.file | gunzip | tar xv
You do this from the destination directory. You may change gunzip to suit
whatever compressor was used, or omit it if you have an uncompressed
tarball. You may omit the 'v' parameter of tar to not get a report of
every file extracted. :-)
--> Jijo
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