Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

[Matthias Murra <Matthias.Murra@gmx.de>]

>Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from
>gzip to tar etc. ?

Given you have a not-too-old version of tar, cd-ing to the directory
you would like to have the contents of the tar file extracted to, and
entering

  tar xzvf <tar file>

should do the job. But then again, what's wrong with piping? It's the
Unix way to do things ;-), and if your version of tar does not understand
the "z" option, it might just as well be the best.

Greets,
Matt

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