On 4 Jan, Osman wrote:
> Hi !
> I have download some "books" about linux. The file format is tar.gz, Can anyone
> here tell me how to unpack them. I have tried several variants of tar and
> gunzip, but unsuccesfully.
If in fact the file is a tar.gz file, the correct syntax to explode it
is this:
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz
That should decompress the file and extract the contents of the
resulting tar archive.
The reason I say "if in fact the file is a tar.gz file" is because some
browsers try to do the "right thing" when downloading a file and
actually extract it all for you while maintaining the original
filename. I've gotten tar.gz'd patch files that way, and it took me
quite some time to figure out that the file was just named with tar.gz
but was actually a plain text file. Communicator is the only browser
I've had this odd behavior in; the rest have been fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> ps.
> can anyone here recommend some good (newbie) books about C-programming
"Beginning Linux Programming" by Neil Matthew and Richard Stone
(published by WROX Press). That should get you started.
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