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

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, John Alexander wrote:

> There is also the the case where you will have a *.tgz, which can can be
> compressed/untarred in the command (which may also work with *.tar.gz files,
> but I can't say that I have personally tried it) tar -xfvz whatever.tgz
> 

This works well though the 'f' parameter must immediately preceed
the filename.  You can also tar -tzf [filename] to test the archive.  I
pipe it through less to see what's in an archive and to see where it
intends to place the files: tar -tzf foo.tar.gz | less. The 'v'
parameter displays the file names on the screen as it works its way
through the archive. This works with files ending in .tar.gz, .tgz,
.tar.Z.   


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