TGZ Files

[Adam Myrow]

Either the easy way or the hard way.

The easy way is "tar xzvf file.tgz."  The "x" means extract, the "v" means
to list the files as they are extracted, and can be left off if desired,
the "z" means run gunzip on the file as well, and the "f" tells the
filename.  The hard way which would work on a system which has a very old
version of tar that doesn't understand the z option would be
gunzip -c file.tgz | tar xvf -
This does the exact same thing.