Re: decompress tgz
shyamk <shyamk@eth.net> writes:
shyamk> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
shyamk> I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip
foo.tgz; tar xf foo.tar' should work. As a shorthand using GNU tar
(the tar included with Debian, for example), you can just do 'tar xzf
foo.tgz'.
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