On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, D.V.Rogers wrote:
> have readthe book, twice
> still having problems uncompressing .tgz files
> any command line suggestions?
> any utilities recommended?
.TGZ files are not just compressed files - they are compress TAR files.
You can do this one of two ways, depending on what *nix you use.
On Linux, you can do this
tar -xzvf <filename.tgz>
This will uncompress _and_ un-tar the file in one command. However, this
only works for the GNU version of TAR, and requires GZIP be installed on
the system and in your path somewhere.
Alternately, you can do this.
gzip -d <filename.tgz>
tar -xvf <filename>
I'm not 100% certain the filename you'd get as a result of the gzip -d
process here - a simple LS will tell you - it may have a .tar extension,
it may not.
DaZZa
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