Chuck Payne wrote: > hi all, > > I need to pull out one file out of gzip file. Can someone explain to > me how. Is the file a single .gz file or a .tar.gz file? Sometimes a tar.gz archive will be saved with only the .gz extension, so you have to run 'file <filename>' to be sure. If it's a .tar.gz archive, then you need to run 'tar xzf <filename>'. --John