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



tar xvzf <bleah>

GNU tar has support for Gzip as a flag (the z).  What I used was tar, 
extract, verbose, gzip compressed, file <bleah>

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Revenant wrote:

> There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book.  But,
> given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old.
> 
> Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from
> gzip to tar etc. ?
> 
> Thanx.
> 
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