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

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, 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. ?

The later versions of tar support the -z option, so you don't need to
use piping: 

tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
tar xvzf filename.tgz

both work.

Bob

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