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

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have a file: filename.tar.gz, go to the directory
above where you wish to install the un-zipped-un-tared filename and
use "tar zxvf filename.tar.gz". A new subdirectory should be created
automatically, and the software copied there.  "cd" to the new 
subdirectory and "cat README | less" to see the instructions to
complete the install.



On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jeff wrote:

> 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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> 
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