TGZ Files

[Luke Davis]

The -z switch to tar will do it, or the gunzip command.  Say you start
with "test.tar.gz", you could do:

gunzip test.tar.gz

In which case you will get "test.tar".  You could drop this step, however,
by doing:

tar -xzf test.tar.gz

Or:

tar -xzvf test.tar.gz

You will then get the expanded contents of the tar.

A ".tgz" file, is just a ".tar.gz" file, with a shorter name.


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> How do I unzip a tgz file?  I found a potential raid reconfig tool and I
> want to play with it under my user id very carefully before I go at my
> system in root.
>
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