On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, shyamk@eth.net 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 operation with 'tar xvzf'.