.tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Thanx. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship.
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
Hi, On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? The gzip -dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xf - -Method is the generic way to go about this task. This works on any Unix system. If GNU tar is at hand, which is usually the case unter Linux, use the -z-switch. This processes the file with gzip first; it turns the above command into tar -xzf filename.tar.gz Note that gzip understands both .gz-files (of course) and older .Z (compress) files. Newer versions of GNU tar (1.12) also support bzip2 compressed files (.bz2) with the -I switch. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Thanx. Personally i just type 'extract file' but i am farely sure that i got that program from a friend a while back rather than with debian. If you want it then feel free to email me and i can send it to you. I dont that it does bz2 however so it helps to know the tar swiches anyway (of course). -- Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 15869961 http://www.albatross.co.nz/~tubby Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry together in shadow for the puppys sad stare, the forest and the death of the moon.
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Given you have a not-too-old version of tar, cd-ing to the directory you would like to have the contents of the tar file extracted to, and entering tar xzvf tar file should do the job. But then again, what's wrong with piping? It's the Unix way to do things ;-), and if your version of tar does not understand the z option, it might just as well be the best. Greets, Matt -- Divide by cucumber error. Reinstall universe and reboot.
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? well, tgz is (supposed to be) a gzip'ed (i.e. compressed) tar (i.e. tape archive) file. it's very eays to pipe. but on recent linux systems like debian you just do a tar xvzf file.tgz, and everything's fine (gnu tar knows about compression), unless it's a bad package! if you are not very shure about it's contens you should take a look at it's contents with tar tzf file.tgz. or you could run seperat a gunzip and a tar command. see man tar rsp. man gzip. gerhard
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? The later versions of tar support the -z option, so you don't need to use piping: tar xvzf filename.tar.gz tar xvzf filename.tgz both work. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
One issue with all this is that the GNU tools are vastly superior to older ones (in terms of extra functionality) but most people never have the misfortune to have to use other unix systems that don't have them. Imagine tar without the 'z' option, find with only 'name' as a predicate, and so on. While some people complain about the command line, it is several times worse on other systems which use the more traditional tools. Carl
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
tar xvzf bleah GNU tar has support for Gzip as a flag (the z). What I used was tar, extract, verbose, gzip compressed, file bleah On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Thanx. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]John Galt /a
Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?
If you're using GNU tar (Linux), check out the -z option. I use tar -xzvf which will un-gzip (is that a word?) and untar at the same time. Your example probably shows tar xvf anyway, so just add the z. Check out the man page for the rest of 'em. +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++ On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Thanx. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
