Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote:
> I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I
> found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?).
You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like:
cat tarfile.tgz | gunzip -c | tar xvf -
The "-c" tells gunzip to pipe it to stdout, and the "xvf -" tells tar
to verbosely extract the file coming into stdin. If I understand your
problem correctly, this should work.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"Monkeys would be harder on equipment than college students,
but only because they're stronger." - Jim Ingles
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