[Techtalk] SUMMARY: Gunzip, gzip, tar, etc. 'nother obvious newbie question

[the sunlover2]

# gunzip something.tar.gz    OR
# gzip -d something.tar.gz   OR
# uncompress something.tar.Z
# tar xvf something.tar

# gunzip <something.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# gunzip <something.tgz | tar xvf -
# gzip -cd something.tgz | tar xvf -
# compress -d <something.tar.Z | tar xvf -
# zcat something.tar.Z | tar xvf -

# unzip -q something.zip


Thanks!

Alex C.
SCNA,SCSA,SSAT,MCSE,MCP+I
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>From: "Rachel Herold" <rherold at earthlink.net>
>To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
>Subject: Re: [Techtalk] 'nother obvious newbie question
>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:47:12 -0700
>
> > I wrote:
><snip>I found a whole set of help files ending in .gz but haven't been
> > >able to figure out how to read/open them
>
>thanks for all the help.  some things are much clearer now...  (everything
>else though is still murky as mississippi mud)
>
>Rachel
>..happily exploring newbie land
>
>
>
>
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