I want to thank everyone that adds more information.
It helps us who are clueless when we see more to the
picture than we expected. For people who didn't ask
the question, it helps even more. We didn't know
enough to ask.
Scott Hamma
--- Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13,
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
It can also be a slackware package, which is still basically a tar.gz file.
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:02:13PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
> shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
> Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip
> f
shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip
foo.tgz; tar xf foo.tar' should work. As a shorthand using GNU tar
(the ta
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
It's a file who's contents have first been 'tar'd up into one
file. Then, that one file is compressed. It's probably more
often called a *.tar.gz file, in case you've seen those
before.
You c
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
read the manuals.. and use the manpages
'man tar'
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
> Please help
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Shyam
>
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing
for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'.
Regards,
Stig
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
The .tgz extension means tar compressed with gzip. It is the same as
.tar.gz. You can also decompress and untar in one op
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
> Please help
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Shyam
It's a tar gzipped file. Tar does not compress files, it only
concatenates
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
tgz -> a gzip'ed tar. Use tar xvf filename.tgz. It is basically a shorthand
for .tar.gz. It is from the days when people has to deal with MS D
On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
short for tar.gz. just gunzip it and it will
become tar
-=greg
On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
there is a unix command called 'file' it tells you what the contents of a file
are believed to be.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
>
> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
>
> Please help
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Shyam
To uncompress:
tar zxf file.tgz
To view:
tar tzvf file.tgz
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