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Re: Help with gz files



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



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