tar archives.

Geoff Shang gshang at uq.net.au
Tue Mar 6 21:50:13 EST 2001


On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terry D. Cudney wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
>
> 	the comand line is:
>
> 		gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf -

This will work fine for *all* implementations of tar, even older versions
that are not gnu tar.  However, it is overly complex and 'tar -zxf
filename.tar.gz' will do the same thing on systems that support it (which
should include all linux systems).

Geoff.






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