Re: [aclug-L] Unzipping zip files with gzip...

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Klee wrote:

> How do I unzip zip files with gzip and unzip them into a folder
> I created?

Pattern         Program
-----------------------------
*.gz            gunzip or gzip -d
*.zip           unzip
*.tar           tar xf

Unless the files have been renamed (mv file.gz file.zip), the different
programs will be unable to uncompress other file types.

If you have a .tar file, you should investigate it first with
tar tf file.tar
to see if it holds a directory structure inside of it or not.  In either
case, if you have a situation like this:
~/file.tar.gz
~/subdir/

and you want the contents of file.tar.gz under subdir, do:
cd
gunzip file.tar.gz
cd subdir
tar xf ../file.tar

If this isn't clear, perhaps a specific example or question would help.
-jeff
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